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"Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: 'It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss'..."
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
(01/28/1873 08/03/1954)
French writer
"When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part."
Artur Rubenstein
(01/28/1887 12/20/1982)
Polish-Israeli-US pianist
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you."
Jackson Pollock
(01/28/1912 08/11/1956)
US painter
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."
Susan Sontag
(01/28/1933 12/28/2004)
US writer
"Broadmindedness is the result of flattening highmindedness out."
George Saintsbury
(10/23/1845 01/28/1933)
English historian
"Literature is mostly about having sex, and not much about having babies; life is the other way round."
David Lodge
(01/28/1935 )
English writer
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."
Alan Alda
(01/28/1936 )
US actor
"I believe aliens are real. I used to go hunting for them, three or four years ago. I'd get back late from a tour and couldn't go to sleep. I'd go out in my car with friends late at night in the middle of Florida and look for UFOs."
Nick Carter
(01/28/1980 )
US singer (Backstreet Boys)
"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
Elijah Wood
(01/28/1981 )
US actor
"I have a box of papers at home of [my own press coverage]. When I'm sixty, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, 'What really happened that year?'"
Christa McAuliffe
(09/02/1948 01/28/1986)
US astronaut, teacher
"Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
Joseph Brodsky
(05/24/1940 01/28/1996)
Russian writer
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