"It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!"

-- Alice James

#Age Quotes #Comic Quotes #Ninety Quotes

“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.”
“We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.”
“Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.”
“I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.”
“Iâ€™m neither â€˜pro-womenâ€™ nor â€˜anti-menâ€™. Iâ€™m just â€˜Thumbs up for the six billion”
“If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.”

Source : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY
“And who will fight Ashur? Choose carefully, for I long for blood.”
“I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.”

Source : 'Lines on his Pension'; attributed

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