"We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it."

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"We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"No lie ever reaches old age."

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