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"If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?"
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"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."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."


"In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it."


"If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?"
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