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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but primarily by catchwords.

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Loneliness,

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Loneliness

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. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age to die young but then you'd never complete your life would you? You'd never wholly know you.
  • 2. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
  • 3. Middle age is youth without levity and age without decay.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My parents were amazing and wonderful but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
  • 2. The good Lord is amazing He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream and He was like 'Hey slow down there buddy.'
  • 3. Children are amazing and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale and of course I teach at Columbia NYU and that's nice and I love students but the most fun of all are the real little ones the young ones.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
  • 2. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
  • 3. Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 2. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
  • 2. You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
  • 3. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
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