#old

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#fingers #i #letter #long #long time

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#believe #dedication #does #hold #i

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#doing #even #hold #illusion #important

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#bigger #consumers #into #magazines #mold

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year. ↗

— Hailee Steinfeld

#asked #commercials #could #cousin #doing

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. ↗

— Frank Stella

#art #art world #goes #hard #i

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. ↗

— Stendhal

#loved #men #old woman #only #something

The trick is growing up without growing old. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#growing #growing old #growing up #old #trick

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#blamed #committed #credit #crimes #evens

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#again #because #being #club #desired