Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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“Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.”
“Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.”
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| Cass Canfield, Publisher (1897) |
| Alice Cary, Poet (1820) |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Writer (1916) |
| Eugene Delacroix, Artist (1798) |
| Giancarlo Esposito, Actor (1958) |
| April Glaspie, Diplomat (1942) |
| Kevin James, Comedian (1965) |
| Curtis Jones, Musician (1968) |
| Greg Laswell, Musician (1974) |
| Hasil Adkins, Musician (2005) |
| Lucille Ball, Comedian (1989) |
| Count Basie, Musician (1984) |
| Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist (2005) |
| Jill Dando, Journalist (1999) |
| Celia Johnson, Actress (1982) |
| Corliss Lamont, Philosopher (1995) |
| David Lavender, Historian (2003) |