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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"Every old poem is sacred."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
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"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."
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"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."
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"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
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"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."
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"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
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"When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem."
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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
Old


"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."
Family


"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
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"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
Animals


"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
Illusion


"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
Absence


"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
Time


"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Writer


"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
Humor


"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."
Age
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