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The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
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The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
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