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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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

"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."

"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

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

"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."
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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."


"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."


"The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter."


"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing."


"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."
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