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A useless life is an early death.

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Death,

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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. The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
  • 2. Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
  • 3. The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Former President Bill Clinton who is widely regarded as a political mastermind may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
  • 2. Big dress cocktails party – I love that. It is my work but my work allow me to have glamour to wear beautiful and amazing dresses to go to big ceremonies.
  • 3. I mean the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing in a very special location.

3 Anger

  • 1. George wrote Taxman and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
  • 2. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
  • 3. Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face women have been trained to cut off anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 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. The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
  • 2. I could have been an architect but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
  • 3. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
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