“My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely.”
Quoted in Matt Seaton, "I feel used," The Guardian, 16 October 2003
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Source: Wings of Fire, p. 90.
"At an Old Palace" (《行宫》), in Gems of Chinese Literature, trans. Herbert A. Giles
Variant translations:
Deserted now imperial bowers.
For whom still redden palace flowers?
Some white-haired chambermaids at leisure
Talk of the late emperor's pleasure.
"At an Old Palace", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 128
The ancient Palace lies in desolation spread.
The very garden flowers in solitude grow red.
Only some withered dames with whitened hair remain,
Who sit there idly talking of mystic monarchs dead.
"The Ancient Palace", as translated by W. J. B. Fletcher in Lotus and Chrysanthemum: An Anthology of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1934), p. 107
Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously", page 300.
The first sentence, attributed to Garfield since the 1890s http://books.google.com/books?id=-RoPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156&dq=%22Whoever+controls+the+volume+of+money%22, is almost certainly a paraphrase of Garfield's "absolute dictator" quote, above. The second part is a late 20th-century commentary misattributed to Garfield.
Misattributed
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IV, Parson Malthus and David Ricardo, p. 71
“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”
Source: The Castle (1926)
“Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.”
Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)
In a letter to her parents, Worpswede, 10 September 1899; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 199
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