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"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
"The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received."
"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own."
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
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