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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."
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."
"Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs."
"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."
"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."
"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."
"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."
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