I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.
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Sherman Alexie, Writer (1966) |
Henry Alford, Clergyman (1810) |
June Allyson, Actress (1917) |
Amiri Baraka, Poet (1934) |
Cotton Fitzsimmons, Coach (1931) |
Clive James, Writer (1939) |
Elizabeth Janeway, Author (1913) |
William Samuel Johnson, Politician (1727) |
Thomas Keneally, Novelist (1935) |
Wally George, Celebrity (2003) |
Natalia Ginzburg, (1991) |
Radclyffe Hall, Poet (1943) |
Johnny Kidd, Musician (1966) |