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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the t

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. – Andre Maurois

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. – Andre Maurois

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Its really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isnt even more fraud. After all, with no God, theres no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. – Ben Stein

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Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. – Jessica Savitch

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No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. – Clifford Bax (1886–1962) [Written at age 39, in 1925. —tε&#5511

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember Ive liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard

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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. – Marquis De Sade

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