Quotes from authors born in 1841
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Authors born in 1841

Krista Allen
Danny Thomas
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Shirley Hufstedler
Dan Dailey
Jack L. Chalker
Frank Whittle
Jerry Rice