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• Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.

  Anthony Holden

  Attitude, Thinking, Years

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• Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

  William S. Burroughs

  Feet, Long, Brain

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• in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

  Doris Day

  Sex, Adventure, Fiction

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• ... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Doctors, Years

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• I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

  Johnny Cash

  Thinking, Jail, Done

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• Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Math, Hell, Asks

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• There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door,
  going sixty-five miles an hour.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Doors, Hours, Throwing Up

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• By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

  Dave Barry

  Rocks, Upset, Radio

  Dave Barry (1991). “Turning 40”, Vintage

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• The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Taken, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

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• My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.

  William Wegman

  Photography, Dog, School

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• One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

  Larry Rivers

  Queens, Night, Tunnels

  Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter

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• Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Character, Talking

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Dec 09, 2012

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• I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

  Dolly Parton

  Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, World, Wonderful

  Interview with Luning Wang, picassoandthesinglegirl.com. November 2016.

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• I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Meaningful, Lying, Believe

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• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Mother, Father, Great Love

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• The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

  Jimmy Carter

  Drug, Culture, Prison

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• The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Bible, Summer, Children

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1872). “Sermons”, p.248

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• When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

  Tim Heidecker

  College, Rocks, Band

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• The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

  William Osler

  Work, Men, Years

  Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

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• The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

  Adrienne Rich

  Twilight, Long, Nineteen

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Past, Zest

  "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece". Review of "The Moon in the Gutter" on September 19, 1983. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 48, 1985.

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• This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

  Mordecai Richler

  Phones, Missing, Age

  Mordecai Richler (1999). “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

  Penelope Tree

  Men, Thinking, Every Man For Himself

  "People thought I was a freak. I kind of liked that" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. August 02, 2008.

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• I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

  Mark Grace

  Mvp, Two, League

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