“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.”
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
