“[Thelma] "…We're too old to keep being foolish."”
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) French painter
Quote of De Vlaminck c. 1898-99; as cited in Vlaminck, Klaus G. Perls, The Hyperion Press, New York 1941, p. 42
It was in these years in the military that Vlaminck was converted to anarchist thinking. In a writing then he questioned how anyone could..
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Fred Shero (1925–1990) Former ice hockey player and coach
Shero prior to the 1976 Flyers-Red Army game <br class="br"> This Was Détente, Philly Style, Sports Illustrated, Mulvoy, Mark, 1976-01-19, 2014-02-19 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1090656/index.htm,
“They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.”
Sharon Tate (1943–1969) actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers
As quoted in New Castle News (9 December 1967)
Context: I can't play games. I have friends, older women, who tell me I'm foolish to let Roman know how deeply I care about him. They tell me all sorts of things like "keep a man guessing", "men become bored with too much devotion". They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, A Tan and Sandy Silence (1972)
Context: We're all children. We invent the adult facade and don it and try to keep the buttons and the medals polished. We're all trying to give such a good imitation of being an adult that the real adults in the world won't catch on. Each of us takes up the shticks that compose the adult image we seek. I'd gone the route of lazy, ironic bravado, of amiable, unaffiliated insouciance. Tinhorn knights of a stumbling from Rent-A-Steed, maybe with one little area of the heart so pinched, so parched, I never dared let anything really lasting happen to me. Or dared admit the the flaw...
The adult you pretend to be convinces himself that the risk is worth the game, the game worth the risk. Tells himself the choice of life style could get him killed — on the Daytona track, in the bull ring, falling from the raw steel framework forty stories up, catching a rodeo hoof in the side of the head.
Adult pretenses are never a perfect fit for the child underneath, and when there is the presentiment of death, like a hard black light making panther eyes glow in the back of the cave, the cry is, "Mommy, mommy, mommy, it's so dark out there, so dark and so forever."
“We're not earthly beings any more… we're cosmic beings.”
Eden ahbez (1908–1995) American songwriter and recording artist
Tape recording to Joe Romersa (1992)
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John Ruskin book Fors Clavigera
Fors Clavigera, letter xxxvii, (1 January 1874).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)
“It is impossible for me to say something foolish without being aware of it.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“We keep on fighting, we keep on playing. We won tonight and we're going to try to keep on winning.”
David Ortiz (1975) Dominican-American professional baseball player, designated hitter
On cue, Drew caps remarkable Sox rally, MLB.com, Ian Browne, October 17, 2008, 2008-12-26 http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20081016&content_id=3625822&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos,