"I grow old, ever learning many things."

-- Solon

#Aging Quotes #Grows Quotes

“What is a decision? It's a tool to remove confusion! Are you confused? If so, then make the decision and let's move on!”
“I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.”
“I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.”
“I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.”

Source : Harriet Doerr (1996). “The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came up with aesthetic categories. That's not what I would say. What's left are communities who make music together, or among whom music circulates. That's it.”
“I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.”

Source : "Can Whitney Cummings Get Some Respect?" by Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.vulture.com. November 18, 2012.
“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ...”
“It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.”

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