"A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S."

-- Ilana Mercer

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“She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.”
“You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.”
“My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.”
“I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.”
“I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache.”

Source : "Jean Carroll, 98, Is Dead; Blended Wit and Beauty" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2010.
“I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.”
“The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.”

Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
“When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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