- Alfred Jarry
(09/08/1873 – 11/01/1907)
French "pataphysical" writer
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| Died 10/31 | Died 11/01 | Died 11/02 | Death Dates |
"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
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| "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do." |
"Serve the dinner backward, do anything but for goodness sake, do something weird."
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| "Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead." |
| "Literature is news that stays news." |  |
| "For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word." |
"He got a reputation as a great actor by just
thinking hard about the next line."
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"If you want to win anything—a race, yourself, your life—you have to go a little berserk."
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"I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field."
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"I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man."
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| "The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis." |  |
| Born 10/31 | Born 11/01 | Born 11/02 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 10/31 | Died 11/01 | Died 11/02 | Death Dates |