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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 used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
Job
"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"
Love
"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
Poetry
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
Books
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
Poetry
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
Help
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
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