"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow."
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"Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive."
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"The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness."
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"Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now."
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"There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within."
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"I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist."
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"Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now."
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"Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers."
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"Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35."
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"In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you."
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"The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age."
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"I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world."
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"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
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"Simplicity, very rare in our age."
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"If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]"
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"Age is never so old as youth would measure it."
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"I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda."
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"After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become."
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"I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on."
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"Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und."
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