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I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.


Helena Christensen


#age #i #live #start #want

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never." "So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?" "Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God.


John le Carré


#nuclear-weapons #russia #spy #war #dreams

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#another #become #damages #fair #injuries

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.


John Ciardi


#dependence #excitement #habituation #label #love is

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.


Frank Howard Clark


#having #needs #never #nothing #repair

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.


Helen Fielding


#computer #diaries #did #end #ended

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.


Helen Fielding


#being #bottom #celebration #i #i think

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.


Helen Fielding


#bombarded #campbell #career #like #many

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.


John Bates Clark


#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.


Suzanne Fields


#both #humor #insult #often #powerful






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