"Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared."

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Source : Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

Ruth Gordon

#Retirement Quotes #People Quotes #Long Quotes

“...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.”
“Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.”
“I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.”
“But the bottom line is, no matter what, even if I shoot 90 tomorrow, I'm going to enjoy it. Maybe people will say "Oh, he blew it" or whatever. Maybe I'm going to blow it, it's the first time I've ever been there. What do you expect? You know I'm not number one in the world. My knees are going to touch each other on the first tee tomorrow. But let me tell you, I'm going to enjoy it.”
“The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.”
“Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.”
“In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.”
“detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.”

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