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"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture."
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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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"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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"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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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."
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"There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have."
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"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture."
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"If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter."
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"If it's not American, the French won't go see it."
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"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."
Work

"When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money."
Money

"I was a precocious reader."
Reading

"The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them."
Technology

"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."
Science
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