"As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable."

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Source : "Doris Lessing: key quotes". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2013.

Doris Lessing

“I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.”

Source : Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.203
“A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but they're almost slaves to their jobs, working crazy hours. Their job totally dominates their lives, and most of them aren't happy. So many of my friends are going down that path. I even thought about it for a second, like "Should I be doing that?" But I just pursued my dreams instead, and I always tell people to do that. Now I make more money than they do, and I'm doing what I love.”

Source : Source: ca.complex.com
“Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I think. But they attract lots of people, they're much derided as a genre but people go and see them and they're not all dumb. There's some very clever horror films. Stephen King gets a lot of flack for not being a proper writer because he's a horror writer, but I think he writes some brilliant books. I think it's wrong to just bin it before looking at it.”
“The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.”
“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”

Source : Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.
“Tennis is a world out of touch with reality”
“A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.”

Source : "America Senses Something's Not Right" By Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2009.
“Donâ€™t worry about people stealing your ideas. ...”

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