"But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?"

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Source : 1940 Pal Joey, ch.1.

John O'Hara

#Dumb Quotes #Use Quotes #Cant Quotes

“It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.”
“For people that are in recovery, you really need to stick by your boundaries. It's hard because you're sharing this space and this experience with other people who might not need to do those things for themselves.”
“You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.”
“If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.8, HMH
“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”
“When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.”
“I don't care with my popularity”
“Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.”

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