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Fifties Quotes (page 8)

Jhumpa Lahiri quote: "that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above..."
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. Jhumpa Lahiri
Harper Lee quote: "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty." Jean Louise (Scout)..."
Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty." Jean Louise (Scout) Finch Harper Lee
He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. Patricia Cornwell
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at..."
We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty. W. Somerset Maugham
People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years. Ian Fleming
My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the... Tyler Perry
...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. Ursula K. Le Guin
I stand ready to risk my own life, to play the game of thought with it in all earnest; but another’s life I cannot jeopardize. This service is perhaps the only one I can render to Philosophy, I who have no learning to offer her, "scarcely enough for the course at one drachma, to say nothing of the great course at fifty drachmas" (Cratylus). I have only my life, and the instant a difficulty offers I put it in play. Then the dance goes merrily, for my partner is the thought of Death, and is... Soren Kierkegaard
Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. Victor Hugo
I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves. Meg Cabot
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a... Nicholson Baker
When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties Virginia Woolf
Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you. Iain Banks
Harper Lee quote: "Atticus was feeblee: he was nearly fifty"
Atticus was feeblee: he was nearly fifty Harper Lee
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us? Anne Lamott

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