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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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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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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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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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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"Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single."
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"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."
Writing

"That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds."
Age

"The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision."
Faith

"We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people."
Time

"When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well."
Friendship

"You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home."
Home

"There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself."
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"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."
Writing

"I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box."
Writing
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