We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7
I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give arent being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger. – Rene Russo
