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Age Quote by Anne Tyler

“None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.” quote by Anne Tyler — Download Open image

“None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.”

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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

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I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"…

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a…

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Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of…

Svetlana Alexievich

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As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40.

Gennaro Gattuso

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Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

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I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that…

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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True…

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