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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
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You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
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You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
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Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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Peace: a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
The Devil's Dictionary -
Year. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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