"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."

Age, Experience, Love, Women

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"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

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"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."

Ability

"At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood."

Home

"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."

People

"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."

Experience

"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."

Art

"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

Narrative

"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."

Being

"My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?"

Money

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

Family

"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

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