"See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands."

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J. P. Donleavy

#Hands Quotes #Age Quotes #Faces Quotes

“In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.”
“Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.”

Source : 1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.1.
“I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.”
“The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.”

Source : Song: Clementine, Album: More of Tom Lehrer
“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics
“Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.”
“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.”
“I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.”

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