"Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example."
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"I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."
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"You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."
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"The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book."
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"The secret anniversaries of the heart."
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"Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery."
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"After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!"
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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."
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"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination."
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"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."
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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."
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"Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future."
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"All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef."
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"In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness."
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"America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances."
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"As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing."
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