Deaths
- January 18 - Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet and critic (born 1833)
- January 25 - Ouida, writer (born 1839)
- March 19 - Eduard Zeller, philosopher (born 1814)
- April 20 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (born 1824)
- July 3 - Joel Chandler Harris, journalist and author (born 1848)
- July 28 - Otto Pfleiderer, theologian (born 1839)
- November 8 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (born 1831)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)