"Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age."

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Lydia M. Child

#Love Quotes #Birthday Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.”
“Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea...”
“My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.”
“Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted with metal studs, pressing a mostly naked woman to their breastplates. And I think Poor girl, thats got to be cold.”
“After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."”
“I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.”
“Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.”

Source : Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”
“As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.”

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