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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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"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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"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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"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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"I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked."
Age
"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
Past
"The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?"
Character
"Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title."
Concern
"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."
Effect
"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."
Effort
"I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt."
Editors
"A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not."
Work
"I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point."
Hate
"It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision."
Food
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