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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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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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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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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
Reading
"The streets were dark with something more than night."
Night
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
Appearance
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
Food
"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
Society
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."
Thought
"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
"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."
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