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"I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit."
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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."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"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."
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience."
"It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women."
"I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough."
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