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04-30-2015 09:50 PM |
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Originally Posted by L-Pink
(Post 20463827)
Actually the expression is "Die young, wear clean underwear" You never want to spend eternity old with dirty boxers.
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I go commando but that's beside the point...
"The saying ?Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse!? is often wrongly attributed to actor James Dean. Dean didn't actually say it ? at least not in his movies."
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What IS actually even more interesting is the movie that this line is from. It was set in the 1940's and just as today race is playing a part in the movie. The movie is based on a book written by an african-american author.
From the article:
"Back then, it was unusual for an African-American author to write a book in which the central characters were white. But Motley was ahead of his time in terms of color-blind thinking and the book became a popular bestseller.
When some color-sensitive critics complained about a ?Negro? writing about white folks, Motley responded: ?My race is the human race.?
Indeed, that empathetic concept is a central theme of the book and movie.
It is memorably summed up by Bogart in the film, when he says to the jury who will decide if Nick is executed: ?Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild them, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano.?
Quotation expert Ralph Keyes speculates in his book The Quote Verifier that Motley may have been ?recycling street talk? when he wrote the line ?Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.?
Interesting that nothing has changed at all in America.
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