"I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story."
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"You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly."
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"True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far before it. It is up with its age, and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march. It cannot slumber, for activity is a necessity of its existence. It is no reservoir, but a fountain."
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"Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
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"Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel."
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"This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father."
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"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling."
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"Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful."
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""I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love."
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"Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time."
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"Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages."
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"We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live."
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"One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age."
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"Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age."
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"Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack."
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"While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]"
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"Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries."
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"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."
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