"Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse."

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Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.25, Hachette UK

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“There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.”
“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.”
“All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.”
“Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.”
“No use crying over spilled milk.”
“Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.”

Source : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
“I'm The Legend Killer, Shawn! Why? 'Cause I kill Legends!”
“Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.”

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