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"God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most."
"Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds."
"I did find my direction at an early age."
"The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. 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."
"There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations."
"I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age."
"Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors."
"How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!"
"Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness."
"I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith."
"I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68."
"I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else."
"Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon."
"Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity."
"there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?"
"The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence."
"I want you to know that your future is always bright, no matter what your age."
"Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that happened in a particular moment and meant something at that time, and we're trying to capture it to mass reproduce it for readers. So of course something is lost. And when we edit that material, we're getting even further from that aura, but toward something else that is potentially vital."
"One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way."
"The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy."
