In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.

~ Steven Magee

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He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

~ Sara Sheridan

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It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

~ David Kynaston

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Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

~ Sara Sheridan

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The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956.

~ Sara Sheridan

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I think we ought to find something else to do,” said Mandy. “But Alecto my love, you’re the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project.”“I like it. It's got that let’s-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance,” Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

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That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.

~ Lucy Foley

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I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

~ Sara Sheridan

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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

~ Martin Freeman

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