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"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."
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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."
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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
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"49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn."
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"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
Art
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Creativity
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
Education
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Power
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
Ability
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
Art
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Education
"All great art is born of the metropolis."
Art
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