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Paddy Chayefsky

"You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment."

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"You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment."

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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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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"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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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

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