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"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
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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."
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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