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

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

"A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel."

"All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?"
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"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be."

"I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam."

"All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood."

"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."

"Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence."

"I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse."
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