Born/Died Today with Pithy Quotes

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"All men think all men are mortal but themselves."
Edward Young
(07/03/1683 – 04/05/1765)
English writer 

"Don't despair, even over the fact that you don't despair."
Franz Kafka
(07/03/1883 – 06/03/1924)
Czech writer 

"A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music."
Ramon Gomez de la Serna
(07/03/1888 – 01/12/1963)
Spanish writer 

"Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra—and sank."
John Mason Brown
(07/03/1900 – 03/16/1969)
US critic 

"Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug."
Joel Chandler Harris
(12/09/1848 – 07/03/1908)
US writer ("Uncle Remus") 

"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules."
Earl Butz
(07/03/1909 – 02/02/2008)
US secretary of agriculture , on the Pope's attitude towards birth control 

Beauchamp: "Donner, why are you trying to be an artist?"
Donner: "I heard there were opportunities to meet naked women."
Tom Stoppard
(07/03/1937 – )
English playwright 

"All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow."
Dave Barry
(07/03/1947 – )
US writer 

"I don't drink but I had a beer that night and they only did one set up like that. I'm a cheap date. What can I say?"
Tom Cruise
(07/03/1962 – )
US actor , on posing topless for Vanity Fair (was married to Nicole Kidman; married to Katie Holmes) 

"I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves."
Connie Nielsen
(07/03/1965 – )
Danish actor 

"We just sort of provided the right thing at the right time. We came along with a very raw sort of music where everything was rather sweet."
Brian Jones
(02/28/1943 – 07/03/1969)
English musician (Rolling Stones) 

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."
Jim Morrison
(12/08/1943 – 07/03/1971)
US singer (the Doors) 

"Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success."
Jim Backus
(02/25/1913 – 07/03/1989)
US actor 

"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."
Mordecai Richler
(01/27/1931 – 07/03/2001)
Canadian writer 

"Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us."
Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon
(01/02/1925 – 07/03/2008)
US entertainer 

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