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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Experience

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. What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
  • 2. I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
  • 3. I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older men get more distinguished.'
  • 2. Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
  • 3. Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

3 Anger

  • 1. I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.
  • 2. Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face women have been trained to cut off anger.
  • 3. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness patriotism and heroism by our troops our National Guard and Reserves.
  • 2. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 3. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
  • 2. Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
  • 3. The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
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