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On neither the sun nor death can a man look fixedly.

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Death,

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Death

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In the age of television image becomes more important than substance.
  • 2. Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
  • 3. Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.
  • 2. It's amazing that no matter how much money you have you can make some bad decisions and in five months you're on the street begging.
  • 3. Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career it's amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering and delivering with a sense of violent love.
  • 2. As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud the anger is elevated sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
  • 3. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 2. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 3. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
  • 2. Architecture is my work and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
  • 3. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
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