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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."

"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."

"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."

"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."
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