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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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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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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say."
Art
"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."
Thought
"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
Food
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Books
"The streets were dark with something more than night."
Night
"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
Society
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."
Law
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Research
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
Power
"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."
Reading
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