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"Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking
So pleasant on this side the grave;
It keeps the unhappy from thinking,
And makes e'en the valiant more brave."

Charles Dibdin
(03/04/1745 – 07/25/1814)
English writer

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure."

Knute Rockne
(03/04/1888 – 03/31/1931)
US football great

"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us."

Antonin Artaud
(09/04/1896 – 03/04/1948)
French writer

"If they give you lined paper, write the other way."

William Carlos Williams
(09/17/1883 – 03/04/1963)
US poet

"Kissing a fella with a beard is like a picnic. You don't mind going through a little brush to get there."

Minnie Pearl
(10/25/1912 – 03/04/1996)
US comic

"I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it."

Catherine O'Hara
(03/04/1954 – )
Canadian actor

"I hate reality—I want to be wholly artificial."

Lolo Ferrari
(03/04/1962 – 03/05/2000)
French porn star (died near her birthday)

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