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Nick Broomfield’s latest documentary, “The Stones and Brian Jones,” looks back at Jones’s rise and fall, lingering on the intra-band power plays and fast living that helped bring him down.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2023

When fast living turns slow and labored, you tend to remember the good times and ponder big ideas such as meaning and purpose.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2020

Charlie is a musician who enjoyed a youthful summer as a one-hit wonder, then squandered his money on fast living and his talent on slacking.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 19, 2019

The sentiment fits Fleming — World War II intelligence agent, thriller writer, devotee of the fine art of fast living — to a T. “Always say yes. Otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2014

There was a broad wicked streak in him, and everybody assumed that he had gone back to his old fast living.

From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger




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