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"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work
"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
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"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
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"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
Work
"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."
Love
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
People
"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
People
"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
Order
"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
Ideal
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