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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Category: Art

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. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
  • 2. Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
  • 3. When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've had to calm down I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.
  • 2. Yeah I've worked with a couple of female directors now and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
  • 3. In our relationship we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

3 Anger

  • 1. Hurt leads to bitterness bitterness to anger travel too far that road and the way is lost.
  • 2. You will not be punished for your anger you will be punished by your anger.
  • 3. Anybody can become angry – that is easy but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

5 Architecture

  • 1. When I'm in London Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
  • 2. It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
  • 3. There is a lot of interest in the arts music theatre filmmaking engineering architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
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