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"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"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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"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."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."
Advice
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
Personal
"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
Age
"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
Success
"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
People
"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
Environment
"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
Creativity
"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments."
Art
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