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Anne McCaffrey

"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."

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"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

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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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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

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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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"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
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"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."
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"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."
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"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."
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"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."
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"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."
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"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."
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"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."
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