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"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."
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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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"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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"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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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"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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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
Film
"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
Art
"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
World
"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
Experience
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
Sense
"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."
Age
"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."
Effect
"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."
Idea
"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
Question
"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
Metaphor
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