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James A. Michener

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

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"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

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

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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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"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 do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."

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"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
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"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
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"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
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