"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."

Age, Despair

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"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."

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"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."

Age, Despair

"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not."

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"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."

People, Action, Character, Grace

"It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have."

Fiction, Poor, Writer

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

Change, Truth, Ability

"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."

Learning, Education, Knowledge, Discovery

"If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival."

Routine, Habit, Consistency, Life

"When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist."

Creativity, Faith, Art, Identity, Passion

"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."

Philosophy, Possession, Struggle, Truth, Life

"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."

Communication, Perception, Audience, Expression

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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Dawn, Grace, Old

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Age, Science, Credit

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Age merely shows what children we remain."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Motivation, Success, Leadership

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

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Not even old age knows how to love death."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Death, Love, Old