"They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies."

-- Anthony Quinn

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“Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...”
“I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.”
“They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.”
“Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.”
“It's good practice to be silly. It's good for you.”
“The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.”
“The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.”
“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.6, Macmillan

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