Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. – Alexander McCall Smith
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then youd never complete your life, would you? Youd never wholly know you. – Marilyn Monroe
I think its quite extraordinary that people cast me as if Im Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends. – Colin Firth
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didnt really know how to successfully get me going. – Miroslav Vitous
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks whats best for all. – Cornel West
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. – Gore Vidal
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus
