"The person of wisdom is the person of years."
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"In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things."
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"One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident."
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"Every age is an unknown country."
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"We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits."
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"Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways."
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"I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five."
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"Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it."
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"I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer."
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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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"How few women have any history after the age of thirty!"
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"I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep."
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"I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then."
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"If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it."
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"The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids."
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"I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand."
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"A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect."
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"After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery."
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"No one should be alone in their old age, he thought."
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"Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph."
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