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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. I don't care about age very much.
  • 2. My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age race or financial status.
  • 3. It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it with very old people.

2 Amazing

  • 1. We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.
  • 2. I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.
  • 3. Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken pork half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
  • 2. The reason why I love people and writing about them is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
  • 3. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.
  • 2. Liquid architecture. It's like jazz – you improvise you work together you play off each other you make something they make something. And I think it's a way of – for me it's a way of trying to understand the city and what might happen in the city.
  • 3. Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
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