"I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?"

Age, War, Class, Man

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"I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?"

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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

Dorothy Thompson, American Journalist

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"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress."

Eva Herzigova, Czechoslovakian Model

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

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"It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time."

Neil Cavuto, American Journalist

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"At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role."

Donald Sutherland, Canadian Actor

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"I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster."

Philip Dunne, American Screenwriter

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"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."

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"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."

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"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."

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"I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?"

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