"It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else."
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"The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are."
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"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."
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"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old."
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"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."
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"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."
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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
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"But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time."
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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."
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"You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look."
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"I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal."
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"How young can you die of old age?"
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"I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy."
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"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."
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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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"My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish."
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"O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy."
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"It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again."
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"When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly."
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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
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