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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

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. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
  • 2. Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire it wafts across the electrified borders.
  • 3. When it comes down to it it's about who you know and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age whether you're hot or not whether the studio is into you or not.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
  • 2. I've done my best to work from a place of humility – always looking over your shoulder saying 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think 'I'm on fire I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.
  • 3. Luckily I have some amazing friends.

3 Anger

  • 1. Our task of course is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think in fact that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
  • 2. I'm an angry person angrier than most people would imagine I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
  • 3. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 3. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
  • 2. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
  • 3. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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