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  • Carson Mccullers There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Ray Charles There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.
    Ray Charles
    American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (1918 - 2015)
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  • Bill Medley There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Barry Humphries There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Ansel Adams These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Al Jarreau These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
    Notes on the Next War (1935)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
    Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Adam Sandler This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • D. H. Lawrence This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
    Middle of the World (1929)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
    Alastor
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • William Shakespeare Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bayard Taylor Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
    Bedouin Song
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Joan Didion Time is the school in which we learn.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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