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"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."
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"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."
"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."
"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."
"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."
"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."
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"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."
"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."
"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."
"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died."
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