Jean Paul Richter

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    Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
    —Jean Paul Richter (1763–1825)

    Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.
    —Michel Guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur (1735–1813)

    The world shall spin and they all, all shall die. But not we.
    Pat Fielder, and Paul Landres. Dracula (Francis Lederer)

    Matthew: It’s a conspiracy.
    Jack Bellicec: What’s a conspiracy?
    Matthew: Everything.
    —W.D. Richter (b. 1945)