He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid. Romain Gary
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
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Stephen King
You are never too old to become younger!
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Mae West
It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events...
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Nicole Krauss
Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.
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Richard Rohr
More Quotes By Romain Gary
...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.
-I love you, Lenny.-From the diaphragm.- What are you talking about?- You have to say it from the diaphragm. That's a muscle in here. Real deep, not from the throat. I tried to be an actor once and that's the first thing they told me....
An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
-Would you wish us to invest it for you?- No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals.- What kind of dumb animals do you have in mind, Miss Donahue?-Oh, stray dogs. Rats. Birds.-We could still invest it for you. Then...
