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Robert Towne

"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

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"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

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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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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."

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"I started skating when I was six years old."

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"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."

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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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