Quotes from authors that died on Feb 11th
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.
Tom Lantos
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Sergei Eisenstein
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
Lu Hsun 
Steve Allen 
Juliette Binoche 
Dave Eggers 
John Clare 
Mikhail Baryshnikov 
Al Jourgensen 
Jung Chang