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Quotes are miniature immortality. Once you’ve said something pithy or profound enough to be recorded in a book - or in the Universal Quotation Database also known as the World Wide Web - you can rest in peace knowing your name never will. Since I recently began to collect quotes for my I Hate L.A. book project, I’ve become very attuned to epigrams, noting them in everything I read, watch, and hear:
Witty Quote of the Day
The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise.
- Paul Newman as Lew Harper, Harper (1966)
Inspirational Quote of the Day
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!
- Dean Karnazes, ultramarathoner
Stupid Quote of the Day
I think that the history that’s going to be written about my generation is going to talk about how we’ve responded to unbelievable challenges – challenges like no other generation for at least a century, I think.
- Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to be Young (Riverhead 2006)
Let me just get out my calculator here. Now, let’s see… subtract 100, and… Okay, so Ms. Kamenetz, who has literally written the book on how hard the Youth have it nowadays, believes that no generation since 1907 has overcome challenges like those faced by her own.
Lemme just set my calculator down, and - here it is - my trusty old history text book. Let’s flip back to 1907… You know, she might be right. There wasn’t much going on a hundred years ago. We’ll just turn the page now and - oh, wait a second.
- World War I
- The Great Depression
- World War II
- The Cold War
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Vietnam War
- Women’s Lib
Wow! It would take a pretty great generation, perhaps even the Greatest Generation, to survive such challenging times as those. I’m sorry to hear that your generation is so saddled by credit card debt, Ms. Kamenetz - all those Xboxes and iPods really add up, don’t they?! - but I’d suggest that you dial down the hyperbole in the future.
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