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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. – George Saunders

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When I was a kid, I took The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. – George Saunders

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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders

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I think women should start to embrace their age. Whats the alternative to getting older? You die. I cant change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. – Olivia Munn

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Im 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, Id also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I dont want to judge it or anything – but its not for me. It would destroy my creativity. – Henry Rollins

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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. – Gary Bauer

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. – Voltaire

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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. – Robert Frost

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For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? Its so ridiculous to me. – Kristen Wiig

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