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"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."
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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
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"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."
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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
Motivational
"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."
Now
"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."
War
"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."
Life
"I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice."
Self
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
Desire
"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."
Age
"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
Road
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
Education
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
Books
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