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- What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
- I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
- Jerry Garcia
- I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
- Howard Dietz
- The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
- Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
- The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
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