The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
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- Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
- People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
- I cry out for order and find it only in art.
- Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
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