"Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth."

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Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

Elizabeth Hardwick

#Cities Quotes #People Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Maybe we want to keep A.I. to the level of a 16-year-old or a 17-year-old adolescent, rather than some fully maxed-out artificial intelligence that becomes 10,000 times smarter than us in just a matter of years. Who knows what could happen? It could be a very dangerous scenario.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I used to like doing school plays.”

Source : "Jamie Waylett Talks About Being 'Crabbe'". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.
“We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.”
“I had an attachment disorder.”
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
“If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.”
“There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.”
“I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.”

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