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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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Personal Development
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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Personal Development
"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."
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Personal Development
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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Personal Development
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
Thinking
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
Decision-Making
"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."
Class
"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage."
Family
"It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them."
Writing
"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
Events
"When I read, I'm purely a reader."
Reading
"I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level."
Class
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