"The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."
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"Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek."
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"There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely."
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"I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age."
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"Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill."
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"We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young."
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"Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight."
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"Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present."
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"I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others."
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"From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it."
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"I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles."
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"In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?"
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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
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"Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile."
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"Dreams age faster than dreamers."
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"People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages."
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". . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."
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"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved."
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