
“I'm 83, and I feel like a 20-year-old, but unfortunately there's never one around.”
Interview for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Source: At his 82nd birthday party, as quoted in "Uncle Miltie's Birthday Bash" by the Associated Press, The Journal-News (July 13, 1990), p. 3
“I'm 83, and I feel like a 20-year-old, but unfortunately there's never one around.”
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Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different.”
Statement made in 1961, as quoted in Voices from Cooperstown : Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was (1998) by Anthony J. Connor, p. 286
Context: I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.
Part XIX
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)