#age

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#acquire #already #also #assist #attracting

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. ↗

— Al Purdy

#always #certain #certain age #how #other

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

#cannot #hope #we cannot #win #yield

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#death #dumb #evolution #higher #nothing

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#danger #fear #fears #gives #prevent

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#contains #detachment #dreams #finds #him

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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