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Because I’m emotionally immature, I’d prefer letting go of you early and always remembering you as you were, rather than hanging on and letting things develop and blossom and then eventually decay.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ↗

— Richard Burton

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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. ↗

— John Updike

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I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. ↗

— Jack Valenti

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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ↗

— Doris Day

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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ↗