"We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word."

-- Cesare Pavese

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“Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.”

Source : The Observer, April 14, 1996.
“When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.”

Source : "David Mamet's Conservative Conversion". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2011.
“If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.”

Source : "Trip Hawkins On Apple". "Edge Online", August 2, 2011.
“We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.”
“When I am old, I shall wear purple”

Source : "Older and wiser: Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems of ageing". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.
“And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.”

Source : John Taylor (1872). “Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. [Reprints of 21 separately issued pieces.] Edited by C. Hindley. L.P.”
“If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.”
“Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.”

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