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"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."
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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."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."
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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."
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"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
Friendship
"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
Friendship
"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
Media
"I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it."
Love
"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
Kids
"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
Society
"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."
Time
"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."
Family
"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."
Change
"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."
Society
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