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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."

"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."

"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
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