- George Ade
(02/09/1866 – 05/16/1944)
US humorist
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"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers,
he had decided to write for Posterity."
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"All over Alabama the lamps are out—Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
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"A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example."
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| "I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?" |
"If they hadn't thrown me off, I would've been the star!"
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"It isn't easy being green."
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"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted."
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"The world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me."
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| Died 05/15 | Died 05/16 | Died 05/17 | Death Dates |