A Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American - Poet
Born: March 24, 1919

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set Spot in the middle Static fade, statistic bit And soon I fade away, fade away

Dave Matthews

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

Mirai Nagasu

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Bob Dylan

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Al Pacino

Some guys have one good year and fade away. I've worked too hard to get here and it's took me too long to just fade away.

Matt Barnes

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Howard Hodgkin

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them.

Jon Jones

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

Paul Keating

Yeah, I know a lot of soldiers. I know soldiers who don't like to hear thank you for your service. And I know soldiers that do like to be told thank you for your service. The ones who don't like to be told are the ones who've been through serious sh*t. They don't care about feedback. They did their job. They did what they have to do. Sometimes the people that thank them are exactly the ones they don't want to be thanked by.

Garrett Hedlund

I see a lot of writers who complain when their book doesn't sell and the reason that happens sometimes, is they don't know how to publicize or promote themselves. A writer is more successful when they're involved in their literary community somehow. It's very easy for an author's book to fade away if they don't get out in public and meet people.

Kevin Sampsell

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

Eric Brown

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

Sherwood Anderson

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.