- Charles Baudelaire
(04/09/1821 – 08/31/1867)
French writer
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"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
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"Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00."
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"She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook."
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"The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread."
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"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone—and hurt them to the bone—you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
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"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes. "
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"The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops."
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"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex."
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"Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since."
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"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
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| "Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back." |  |
"My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
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| Died 04/08 | Died 04/09 | Died 04/10 | Death Dates |