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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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Personal Development
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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Personal Development
"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"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."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"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 admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."
Work
"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."
Family
"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."
Creativity
"I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in."
Life
"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
Christian
"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave."
Age
"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."
Life
"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."
Happiness
"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."
Poverty
"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."
Experience
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