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"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."
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"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."
Work
"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
People
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
Life
"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."
Age
"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."
Woman
"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
Writing
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
Decision-Making
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
Movies
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
Politics
"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
Character
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