"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.“

-Randall Jarrell

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"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."

-Randall Jarrell

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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

-Marilyn Monroe

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

-Robert Frost

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

-George Sand

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

-Mark Twain

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-Maya Angelou

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-Willa Cather

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

-Tom Stoppard

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

-Bertrand Russell

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

-Robert Browning

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

-Albert Einstein

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."

-Marshall McLuhan