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Francois Rene de Chateaubriand "One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious."

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand
(09/04/1776 – 07/04/1848)
French writer
Antonin Artaud "No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."

Antonin Artaud
(09/04/1896 – 03/04/1948)
French writer
Mary Renault "How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?"

Mary Renault
(09/04/1905 – 12/13/1983)
English writer
Richard Wright "The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."

Richard Wright
(09/04/1908 – 11/28/1960)
US writer
Paul Harvey Aurandt "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

Paul Harvey
(09/04/1918 – 02/28/2009)
US radio journalist
"My children loved them, but I always thought they were repulsive books, the 'Narnia' books. I can't stand that awful lion!"

Joan Delano Aiken
(09/04/1924 – 01/04/2004)
English writer , on C. S. Lewis' series
Tom Watson "Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum."

Tom Watson
(09/04/1949 – )
US golfer
Irwin Edman "It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved."

Irwin Edman
(11/28/1896 – 09/04/1954)
US philosopher, professor
"I fought the lawn, and the lawn won."

Rebecca Elizabeth Kerewsky
(09/04/1965 – )
US explorer , on mowing damp grass
Albert Schweitzer "The deeper we look into nature the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret, and we are all united to all this life."

Dr. Albert Schweitzer
(01/14/1875 – 09/04/1965)
humanitarian, theologian, missionary, organist, and medical doctor
"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."

Marcel Achard
(07/05/1899 – 09/04/1974)
French writer
"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market."

E. F. Schumacher
(08/16/1911 – 09/04/1977)
German-born economist
"When people say, 'You're breaking my heart,' they do in fact usually mean that you're breaking their genitals."

Jeffrey Bernard
(05/27/1932 – 09/04/1997)
English writer
Steve Irwin "If something ever happens to me, people are gonna be like 'we knew a croc would get him!'"

Steve Irwin
(02/22/1962 – 09/04/2006)
Australian "Croc Hunter"

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