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Authors of 1939

Born or Deceased in 1939

George Archer

Born :1 October 1939

Ralph Boston

Born :9 May 1939

Jim Bouton

Born :8 March 1939

Lou Brock

Born :18 June 1939

Bruce Froemming

Born :28 September 1939

Bob Lilly

Born :26 July 1939

Phil Niekro

Born :1 April 1939

Bill Toomey

Born :10 January 1939

Lee Trevino

Born :1 December 1939

Al Unser

Born :29 May 1939

Carl Yastrzemski

Born :22 August 1939

Margaret Atwood

Born :18 November 1939

Toni Cade Bambara

Born :25 March 1939

Quotes of 1939

Quotes taken from the authors in 1939

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Margaret Atwood

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Margaret Atwood

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Margaret Atwood

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Margaret Atwood

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

Margaret Atwood

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.

George Archer

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Ralph Boston

Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

Ralph Boston

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

Ralph Boston

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

Ralph Boston

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

Ralph Boston

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Toni Cade Bambara

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Toni Cade Bambara

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Toni Cade Bambara

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.

Bill Toomey

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Bill Toomey

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

Bill Toomey

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

Bill Toomey