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"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."
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"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."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

"Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection."
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"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."


"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."


"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."


"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."


"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."


"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
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