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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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Haley Barbour, Politician (1947) |
Harry Callahan, Photographer (1912) |
Robert Capa, Photographer (1913) |
Bao Dai, Statesman (1913) |
Catherine Deneuve, Actress (1943) |
Zac Hanson, Musician (1985) |
Derek Jacobi, Actor (1938) |
Spike Jonze, Director (1969) |
Timothy Leary, Educator (1920) |
Lyman Abbott, Author (1922) |
Eric Ambler, Writer (1998) |
Kingsley Amis, Novelist (1995) |
Red Barber, Celebrity (1992) |
Pablo Casals, Musician (1973) |
Savitri Devi, Writer (1982) |
Howard Finster, Artist (2001) |