"Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well...."

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Source : John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

John Mortimer

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“I do believe all actors are smart.”
“There is no client as scary as an innocent man.”

Source : Michael Connelly (2011). “The Lincoln Lawyer Novels: The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal”, Little, Brown
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.”
“...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.”
“Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.”

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“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.”

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