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"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."
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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours."
Sex
"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."
Rest
"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."
America
"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."
Age
"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to."
Time
"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."
Chaos
"Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos."
Chaos
"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."
People
"I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God."
Life
"If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover."
People
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