"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."

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Source : Ossie Davis (1993). “Purlie Victorious: A Commemorative”, Emmalyn II Prod Co Inc

Ossie Davis

#College Quotes

“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.”
“You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.”
“Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.”
“If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.”
“You are going to tell me what I want to know, it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt.”
“I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.”
“I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.”

Source : Christine Schutt (2012). “Prosperous Friends”, p.164, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.”

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