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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since."
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one."
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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Explore more quotes by Mickey Spillane
"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."
Money
"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
Danger
"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
Family
"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it."
People
"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
Writing
"Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am."
Now
"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
Media
"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
"I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there."
Nation
"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."
History
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