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"Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel."
John Dalton
(09/06/1766 07/27/1844)
English scientist
"The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat
with an indolent expression and an undulating throat
Like an unsuccessful literary man."
Hilaire Belloc
(07/27/1870 07/16/1953)
French writer
"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
Leo Durocher
(07/27/1906 10/07/1991)
US baseball player, coach
"My billing has always been; 'and', or 'with', or 'including.' That's all right; let the stars take the blame."
Keenan Wynn
(07/27/1916 10/14/1986)
US actor
"If you are what you eat, then one of the sharks in 'Jaws' is a beer can, half a mackerel and a Louisiana license plate... The other characters in the film are nowhere nearly so fully packed."
Vincent Canby
(07/27/1924 10/15/2000)
US film critic
"Certainly no style seems at first glance to provide a richer field for the investigations of Herr Freud."
Sir Osbert Lancaster
(08/04/1908 07/27/1980)
English illustrator, gardener
, on Art Deco
"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."
William Wyler
(07/01/1902 07/27/1981)
French director
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
Bob Hope
(05/29/1903 07/27/2003)
English-born comic
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