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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."
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"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."
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"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."
People
"I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped."
Love
"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"
Fiction
"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."
Family
"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world."
Love
"When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it."
Creativity
"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."
Love
"If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young."
Intelligence
"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."
Work
"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."
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