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"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."
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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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"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.'"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
World
"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."
Time
"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."
Age
"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"
Drink
"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."
Creativity
"Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me."
Books
"I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me."
Sense
"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."
Family
"This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force."
Being
"The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time."
Time
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