"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope."
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"I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road."
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"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
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"No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."
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"Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands."
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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense."
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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."
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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
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"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
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"I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth."
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"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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"Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face."
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"What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack."
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"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing."
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"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along."
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