Quotes from authors that died on Jul 5th
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Howard Nemerov
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
James Norman Hall
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Bruce Barton
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
Charles Stewart Parnell 
Scott Wolf 
Clarence Clemons 
Liv Ullman 
Kevin Kline 
Ron Fairly 
Marie Corelli 
Walid Jumblatt