"Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement."

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Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

Egon Friedell

#Artist Quotes #Long Quotes #Age Quotes

“I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.”
“So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.”
“The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.”
“If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.”
“The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.”

Source : "The Mis-Education of the Negro". Book by Carter G. Woodson, 1933.
“Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.”
“People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change.”
“to everything there is an end - except fear.”

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