Quotes from authors that died on Feb 8th
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Charles Curtis
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Walther Bothe
I don't drink as much as I use to could.
Anna Nicole Smith
Kristin Hersh 
Maxine Waters 
Harriet Beecher Stowe 
Shaun Alexander 
Dave Winer 
John Harrison 
Curt Schilling 
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