"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, Experience, History, Deep

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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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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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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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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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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"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."

Experience

"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."

Metaphor

"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."

World

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."

Sense

"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

"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

"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."

Film

"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."

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"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."

Question

"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

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