Deaths
- January 14 – Anaïs Nin, novelist and diarist
- February 27 – John Dickson Carr, crime novelist
- April 7 – Jim Thompson, pulp fiction author
- April 11 – Jacques Prévert, poet
- May 9 – James Jones, American novelist (born 1921)
- July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist
- September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful author
- September 12 – Robert Lowell, poet
- October 27 – James M. Cain, novelist, newspaperman
- November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, occult novelist
- November 30 – Terence Rattigan, dramatist
- December 22 – Frank Thiess, German writer
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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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)