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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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Personal Development
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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Personal Development
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."
Family
"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."
Imagination
"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."
Money
"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."
People
"A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough."
Man
"If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted."
Man
"Americans don't want cowboys to be gay."
Society
"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves."
People
"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."
Being
"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic."
Social
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