"To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning."

--

Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

Brendan Gill

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“If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.”
“For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.”
“You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.”
“I think it's a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it's worth it. It's worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore.”

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“Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”

Source : "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
“Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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