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
My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?
Paul Hindemith
Spencer Abraham 
Horace Walpole 
Bennie Thompson 
Mark Cuban 
Natasha Hamilton 
Chavela Vargas 
Rachel Bilson 
John Millington Synge