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When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Kamal Ahmed, Comedian (1966) |
Sidney Altman, Scientist (1939) |
Jan Peter Balkenende, Statesman (1956) |
Anne Baxter, Actress (1923) |
Joseph Cannon, Politician (1836) |
Angela Carter, Novelist (1940) |
Owen Hart, Entertainer (1965) |
Joseph Joubert, Writer (1754) |
Edwin Land, Inventor (1909) |
Frederick Kelly, Athlete (1974) |
Stanislaw Lec, Poet (1966) |