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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
| Anna Akhmatova, Poet (1889) |
| Richard Bach, Novelist (1936) |
| June Carter, Musician (1929) |
| Donald J. Carty, Businessman (1946) |
| June Carter Cash, Musician (1929) |
| Vinton Cerf, Inventor (1943) |
| Glenn Danzig, Musician (1955) |
| Joel Edgerton, Actor (1974) |
| Edward VIII, Royalty (1894) |
| King Edward VIII, Royalty (1894) |
| Mark Akenside, Poet (1770) |
| Shana Alexander, Journalist (2005) |
| William S. Hart, Actor (1946) |
| Maynard Jackson, Politician (2003) |


