"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

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"Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"We get too soon old and too late smart."

Frank Kelly Freas, American Writer

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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."

Stanley Kubrick, American Director

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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."

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"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."

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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

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"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

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"Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties."

"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."

"We get too soon old and too late smart."

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

"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."

"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."

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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."

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"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."

"A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure."

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."