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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."

"And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together."

"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

"Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead."
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"Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be."

"The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender."

"Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium."
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