"No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories."
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"As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me."
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"Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less."
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"There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically."
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"Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together."
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"That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."
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"After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?"
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"I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer."
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"Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive."
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"Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule."
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"I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years."
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"They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours."
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"I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast."
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"Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages."
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"After fifty most of the bullshit is gone."
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"If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!"
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"For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all."
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"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."
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"Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting."
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"In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it."
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