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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
People
"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
Living
"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
Legal
"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
Development
"If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising."
Time
"Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished."
Children
"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."
Attention
"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
Family
"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music."
Age
"I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt."
Music
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