Quotes from authors that died on Dec 3rd
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.
Lewis Thomas
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
Gwendolyn Brooks
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Herman J. Mankiewicz 
Benjamin Rush 
Yevgeny Zamyatin 
Pedro Almodovar 
William Thomas Green Morton 
Whitey Herzog 
Jared Sparks 
Iain Duncan Smith