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"Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
William Warburton
(12/24/1698 06/07/1779)
English bishop, literary critic
"Feed the musician, and he's out of tune."
George Crabbe
(12/24/1754 02/03/1832)
English writer
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
Lord Viscount John Morley
(12/24/1838 09/23/1923)
English historian
"Darling, you stink so beautiful."
Michael Curtiz
(12/24/1898 04/11/1962)
US film director
, to a perfumed actress
"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."
I. F. Stone
(12/24/1907 06/18/1989)
US writer
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
John Muir
(04/21/1838 12/24/1914)
Scottish naturalist
"The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet."
Mary Higgins Clark
(12/24/1927 )
US writer
"Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you."
Jill Bennett
(12/24/1931 10/04/1990)
Malayan actor
(was married to John Osborne)
"For those who missed it the first time, this is your golden opportunity; you can miss it again."
Michael Billington
(12/24/1941 06/03/2005)
English actor
"It will be so dirty that if we moved in next to you, your lawn would die."
Lemmy Kilmister
(12/24/1945 )
English bassist
, on Motörhead's music
"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style."
Louis Aragon
(10/03/1897 12/24/1982)
French writer
"Don't clap too hardit's a very old building."
John Osbourne
(12/12/1929 12/24/1994)
Welsh writer
(was married to Jill Bennett and died on her birthday)
"In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?"
Harold Pinter
(10/10/1930 12/24/2008)
English writer
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