- John Evelyn
(10/31/1620 – 02/27/1706)
English writer
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"Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at."
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"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children."
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"It is time for dead languages to be quiet."
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"We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past."
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"In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side."
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"Look, I'm not an intellectual—I just take pictures."
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| "I've been married to one marxist and one fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out." |  |
"Americans will put up with anything, provided it doesn't block traffic."
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"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, `Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'"
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"Belfast is like an ugly child—you love it the most."
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"Me and George and Billy are two of a kind."
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"Deafness has left me acutely aware of both the duplicity that language is capable of and the many expressions the body cannot hide."
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| "Once the Invisible Hand has taken all the historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery." |  |
"What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies."
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"The real reason I decided on show business was to avoid a day job."
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| Died 10/30 | Died 10/31 | Died 11/01 | Death Dates |