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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

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"I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it."

People Age Often Is

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Janice Dickinson Model, Author

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"I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age."

Age Wish Sober Up

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Jennifer Lawrence Actress

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"Where are the Robert Redfords and Paul Newmans of my age group? I love James Franco, but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act?"

Age Next Groups

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself."

Age Time Faults

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance."

Age Youth Abundance

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age."

Age Wish Youth

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn."

Age Truth Dew

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John Hay Politician

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"Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins."

Thinking Men Age

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer

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"What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736."

Years Age Friendship

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet

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"My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges."

Age Taught Borges

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist

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"In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself."

Age Clothes Youth

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Julian Barnes Author

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"It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others."

Past Age Differences

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Jung Chang Author

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"At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general."

Age Grandmother Fifteen

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Jean Paul Writer

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"Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can."

Heart Age Memories

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist

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"My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant."

Years Age Technology

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May Sarton Poet

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"The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged."

Country Age Interesting

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May Sarton Poet

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"[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . ."

Age Moments Innocence

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Milan Kundera Writer

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"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

Life Age Understanding

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Mo'ne Davis Athlete

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"I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself."

Age Role Models Badass

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Moliere Playwright, Actor

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"Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!"

Age Sometimes Morality

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