- Anatole France
(04/16/1844 – 10/12/1924)
French writer
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| Died 04/15 | Died 04/16 | Died 04/17 | Death Dates |
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
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"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."
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"'A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded,' he said, 'for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.'"
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"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."
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"In the end, everything is a gag."
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| "I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life—even when it's a kick in the teeth." |  |
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
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"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. "
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"Two members of the acting profession who are not needed by that profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that an actor's job is still more difficult than their new ones."
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"He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic."
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"I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate."
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| "With a biography there is no straight line; all is muddled. You don't know what you know, you don't know what you don't know; if you find anything you make a note about it because some day it may find its partner. You have to have very good ways of keeping track of what you have found and where you have put it." |  |
"It was nice to go through that and survive it. I think we were pretty levelheaded compared to some people."
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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents [the adults had to pay]."
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"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization."
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"I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers—I mean Chargers."
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"People tend to remember my performances, not me."
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| Born 04/15 | Born 04/16 | Born 04/17 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 04/15 | Died 04/16 | Died 04/17 | Death Dates |