July 3

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Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
You don't understand. I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender. ~ Marlon Brando as "Terry Malloy" in On the Waterfront (recent death)
2005
The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. ~ Franz Kafka (born 3 July 1883)
2006
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ~ Tom Stoppard (born 3 July 1937)
2007
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. ~ Franz Kafka
2008

[edit] Suggestions

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ~ The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka born that day.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:22, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (But italicize title.)
  • 2 A famous line, but still a relatively obscure and simply puzzling statement to many people. ~ Kalki
  • 2 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:39 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
  • 3 I like this one. Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. ~ Tom Stoppard (born July 3, 1937)

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight. ~ Tom Stoppard

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. ~ Tom Stoppard

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. ~ Tom Stoppard

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