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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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"Everybody is doing the same old thing."
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"Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before."
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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."
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"To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run."
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"There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
Fool
"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
Time
"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
Beginning
"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris."
God
"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
Art
"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
Pretty
"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
Art
"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
Life
"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
Talent
"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
Now
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