Quotes from authors that died on Dec 28th
Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.
Jack Lovelock
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Max Beckmann
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle
Edward Hopper 
Craig Ferguson 
Nick Faldo 
Karl Lagerfeld 
John Langdon 
Jerome Myers 
Brandon Boyd 
Joanna Newsom