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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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Personal Development
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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 poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories."
Poetry
"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."
Being
"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
Friendship
"Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor."
Time
"My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong."
Family
"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."
Age
"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth."
Peace
"I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me."
Body
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