- Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon
(11/27/1635 – 04/15/1719)
French courtesan, writer
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"Hope says to us constantly, 'Go on, go on,' and leads us to the grave."
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"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him
act as if he were fighting bees."
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"One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common—discontent."
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"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
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"Words are loaded pistols."
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"So I said to the taxi driver, 'King Arthur's Close.' He said, 'Don't worry, we'll lose him at the next set of lights'"
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"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent."
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"Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it."
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| "I was bored by a lot of (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein). It hadn't occurred to me that I could skip anything." |  |
"The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth."
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"The First Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend."
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| Died 04/14 | Died 04/15 | Died 04/16 | Death Dates |