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“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.”

— Steve Jobs

“Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But it's the encouraging of half the people of America and many more besides to hate words, hate what words can do, hate thought, hate the liberal, the sophisticated, the metropolitan. It's anger-making.”

— Howard Jacobson

“I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.”

— Tom Stoppard

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”

— John F. Kennedy

“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.”

— Donald Trump

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

— Socrates

“'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.”

— Michel de Montaigne