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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."
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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
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"49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way."
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"A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn."
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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."
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"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."
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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain."
Truth
"Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part."
Gender
"I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life."
Parenting
"We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."
Isolation
"Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls."
Gender
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
Money
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."
Marriage
"You cannot write unless you write much."
Writing
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