"I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection."

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Source : "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2014.

Roger Angell

#Men Quotes #Air Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.”
“Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.”
“Women are all alike-- aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride....”
“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”
“I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly”
“If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
“One person can make a difference.”
“I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.”

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