Quotes from authors that died on Dec 17th
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
Peter Warlock
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Dorothy L. Sayers
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
Victor Francis Hess
I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
Jack Anderson
Edward Blake 
Chris Barber 
Kofi Busia 
Francis Scott Key 
William Lloyd Garrison 
Clive Barker 
John Dudley 
Paul Schrader