"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"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."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"We are always the same age inside."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"From a relatively early age I got interested in business."

Steve Case, American Businessman

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"I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity-damn posterity."

Creativity

"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."

Choice

"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."

Creativity

"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."

Humor

"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."

Hope

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

Thought

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

"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."

"We are always the same age inside."

"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"From a relatively early age I got interested in business."

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"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."

"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."

"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"The crown of literature is poetry."

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."