"Retirement is the ugliest word in the..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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“You don't have to destroy me. Do you?”
“There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.”
“But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).”
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“A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue.”
“I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.”
“The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"”
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“If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.”
“Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.”