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"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."

"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."

"Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it's language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I've come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality."

"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
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