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“If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.”

Ifs Young Walking Findings Sentences Bars Shooting Indecision Haze Saloons

Author:Adam Haslett

“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”

People Trying Stills Facts Young Identity Youth Findings Suits Mask Uncertain Succession Finding The One

Author:W. H. Auden

“Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides”

Men Sometimes Hard Young Wife Benefits Findings China Young Man Hard Times Unexpected Village Electricity Brides Provinces Arrivals

Author:Christopher Flavin

“But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.”

Should Writing Has Beens Stills Young Lost Causes Process Study Teaching Findings Errors Ancient Accepted Conclusion Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

“The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.”

“Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.”

Home Young Brother Masters Findings Faults Speakers Spares Brothers And Sisters Young Writers Fault Finding

Book:Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

“The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.”

Thinking Men Problem Seems Young Findings Partners Superiors Defeated Young Women

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.”

Ifs Kind Pain Young Used Mother Conversation Findings Access Relief Wheelchairs Pain Relief

Author:Tom Shadyac

“Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.”

Years Mean Today Young Fans Findings Through The Years Young Ones

Author:Ella Fitzgerald

“I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.”

Knows Men Doe Young Findings Following Greek Young Man Genesis

Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.”

Stories Young Certain Media Particular Findings Lows Mediums Brows

Author:Corey Stoll

“Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.”

“I think the people who have been finding it harder and harder to feed their kids - the young people who are afraid "I'm never going to have a job and be able to provide for a family," all of that can turn around and it can turn around quickly.”

People Thinking Has Beens Kids Able Jobs Young Turns Findings Harder

Author:Ted Cruz

“Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Kind May Long Stills Character Home Kids Together Young Values Boys Becoming Safe Essentials Findings Trauma Defined Young Man Aunt Safe Places Home Base

Author:Marisa Tomei

“Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.”

Thinking Age Today Young Findings Connections Theme Broads Hobbies Young Age

Author:Dean Kamen

“After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.”

Two Young Voice Class Forever Middle Changed Findings Albums Middle Class Bob Solo Initials Dylan Acoustics Woody Pseudo Popular Music Reinventing Hobos Zimmerman

Author:Jay Michaelson

“That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.”

Ifs Knows Believe Important Ends Done Whole Body Young Certain Found Happened Identity Findings Absolutes Corners Sexuality Finding Yourself Links Fascinated Adam Around The Corner

Author:Tilda Swinton

“It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.”

People Way Want Young Findings Obsessed Similarity

Author:Judd Apatow

“Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.”

Christian Young Purpose Causes Christ Students College Findings Savior Young Women Emily Without Hope

Author:Christopher Benfey

“Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.”

Way Stills Real Age Young Findings Standards Opposites Double Standard Sean Young Ladies

Author:Denzel Washington