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sadder and wiser



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Somehow, the younger Fellini strikes me as sadder and wiser than the all-powerful magus he would eventually become.

From The New Yorker Jan. 17, 2020

You finish it feeling sadder and wiser, so if you’re O.K. with the sadder part, you should take it on.

From New York Times May 7, 2015

The son of a lifelong sailor, Llewyn has done a few tours at sea himself, leaving him a shade sadder and wiser than most of the middle-class folkie kids he’s surrounded by.

From Slate Dec. 5, 2013

Costantini has created a fascinating protagonist, first seen as a thirtysomething womaniser with fascist sympathies, and then as an older, sadder and wiser man, bent on making amends for past mistakes.

From The Guardian Apr. 25, 2013

Bertrand Ballard left the studio more confused in his mind, and yet both sadder and wiser then he had ever been in his life.

From The Eye of Dread by Payne Erskine




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