"We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors."

Age, Experience, Now

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"We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book."

Vision

"There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way."

Hope

"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."

Magic

"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"

Work

"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."

Passion

"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them."

Respect

"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."

Film

"My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life."

Life

"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."

Past

"Filmmaking can be a fine art."

Art