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née today: Henri Matisse
birth info: 31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954
“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”
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née today: Diego Luna
birth info: 29 December 1979
“You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy. I like real life. I like touching and smelling, hugging. I like chatting. I like being around people. I like to see the reactions of my actions.”
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née today: Franklin Christenson “Chris” Ware
birth info: 28 December 1967
via Guardian: Ware grew up the single son of a single mother in Omaha, Nebraska. At school, he was “A real nerd. I kept to myself, afraid of being punched in the hallway in between classes, waiting for my male body to arrive, and it never really quite did.” Sigh. “It’s a story that most cartoonists can tell, I think. We’re endemically nostalgic people who turn our lives over and over and over again trying to figure out how we went wrong and fix things or control them, make sense of things.” Another sigh. “I don’t know.”
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née today: Marlene Dietrich
birth info: 27 December 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992
Writing about Dietrich, Hemingway said, “If she had nothing more than her voice she could break your heart with it. But she has that beautiful body and the timeless loveliness of her face. It makes no difference how she breaks your heart if she is there to mend it.” – September 26, 1951 from an unpublished article for “Life”.
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née today: Henry Miller
birth info: 26 December 1891 - 7 June 1980
“Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another`s way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!”
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née today: Humphrey Bogart
birth info: 25 December 1899 – 14 January 1957
“I don’t approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying ‘Shucks, I ain’t no actor — I’m just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant.’ If they aren’t actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.”
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née today: Ava Gardner
birth info: 24 December 1922 - 25 January 1990
“I don’t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.”
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née today: Madame C. J. Walker
birth info: 23 December 1867 – 1919 May 25
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née today: E.A. Robinson
birth info: December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935
“The Torrent”
I found a torrent falling in a glen
Where the sun’s light shone silvered and leaf-split;
The boom, the foam, and the mad flash of it
All made a magic symphony; but when
I thought upon the coming of hard men
To cut those patriarchal trees away,
And turn to gold the silver of that spray,
I shuddered. Yet a gladness now and then
Did wake me to myself till I was glad
In earnest, and was welcoming the time
For screaming saws to sound above the chime
Of idle waters, and for me to know
The jealous visionings that I had had
Were steps to the great place where trees and torrents go.
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