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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
Eden Ahbez, Musician (1908) |
Claudia Cardinale, Actress (1938) |
Bliss Carman, Poet (1861) |
Joe Davis, Celebrity (1901) |
Dave Edmunds, Musician (1944) |
Leonhard Euler, Mathematician (1707) |
Luke Evans, Actor (1979) |
Eva Figes, (1932) |
Jay Garner, Soldier (1938) |
Henry James, Writer (1843) |
Simon Dach, Poet (1659) |
William Empson, Poet (1984) |
Oliver Evans, Inventor (1819) |
Greta Garbo, Actress (1990) |
Jean Genet, Dramatist (1986) |
Abraham Lincoln, President (1865) |