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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
| Stephen Carter, Lawyer (1954) |
| Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary (1759) |
| Geoff Davis, Politician (1958) |
| Rosemarie DeWitt, Actress (1974) |
| Ted Demme, Director (1963) |
| Cary Elwes, Actor (1962) |
| Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher (1466) |
| Paul Farmer, Educator (1959) |
| Mahalia Jackson, Musician (1911) |
| Judy Johnson, Athlete (1899) |
| Timothy Dexter, Businessman (1806) |
| Elizabeth Jennings, Poet (2001) |
| Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer (1957) |


