Fifty

Famous quotes containing the word fifty:

“For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)

“Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)