"Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit."

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Ambrose Bierce

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“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”
“In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background”
“In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.”

Source : Robin Meyers (2010). “Morning Sun on a White Piano: Simple Pleasures and the Sacramental Life”, p.47, Galilee Trade
“There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland”

Source : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
“No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.”
“The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.”
“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”

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