"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

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Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

Max Lerner

#Real Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2010.
“I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.”
“What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.”

Source : Jack Vance (1981). “Star King”, p.36, Spatterlight Press
“Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.”
“GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.”
“Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.”

Source : Marjorie Bowen (1938). “World's Wonder and Other Essays”
“I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.”

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