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Donald Hall Quotes

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 20, 1928 - June 23, 2018

Topics

Age Old Age Silence Friends Die Old

Most of the time, people think they went to high school with me.

Time School People Me Think High

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

Amanda de Cadenet

Hands My Own Worst Abuse Own Lived

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

History Great World Survive Fall

Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure.

Winter Time Spring Ahead Will Begin

Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.

King Lonely Civility Got Show Larry

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Michael Ondaatje

Myself Someone Write Would Like

I really love being a character actor.

Love Character Actor Being Really

I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Focus Broken Sketch Lizard Did Then

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

Science Questions Literature Why Ask

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.

Slavery Artist Young Say Contracts

In this system, I've always played in the position behind the striker. I also don't enjoy being classed as a striker - I don't see myself as one.

Myself Enjoy Always See System Also

I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.

I Can Now Kind Years Without Going

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