"Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!"

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Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus (1988). “Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris”, Loeb Classical Library

Catullus

#Age Quotes #Ill Quotes

“In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.”
“A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.”
“I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.”
“Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.”
“There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.”

Source : Shannon Delany (2011). “Secrets and Shadows: A 13 to Life Novel”, p.257, Macmillan
“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.”
“It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.”

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