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"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

"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."

"The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come."
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"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."

"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."

"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."

"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."

"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."

"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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