"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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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."

William James, American Philosopher

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Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

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"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."

Struggle

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

Reading

"And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars."

Stars

"Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever."

Death

"Let's face it, writing is hell."

Hell

"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain."

Experience

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

"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."

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"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."

"If youth knew; if age could."

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

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"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."

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"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

"And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars."

"Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever."

"Let's face it, writing is hell."

"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain."

"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."