"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, Care, Temper, Want

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"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."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"We are always the same age inside."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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

"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

"There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself."

Nothing

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

Faith

"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."

Writing

"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

"The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us."

Society

"Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work."

Work

"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

"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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