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My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
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My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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Never go back to your old front.
Source: Reynolds - Hemingway: The Homecoming -
Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
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New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
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Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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