"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

Age, People, Effect, Pleasure

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"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

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"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."

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"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

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"If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal."

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"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

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"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to."

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