"From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye."
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"Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade."
"For my birthday, buy me a politician!"
"When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday."
"There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing."
"I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor."