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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would… — Augusten Burroughs
Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant. — Marcia Cross
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. — H. L. Mencken
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? — Aldous Huxley
It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that… — Michiel Huisman
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid. — Billy Bob Thornton
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are… — Steve Coogan
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and… — Audre Lorde
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. — John Malkovich
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. — Gary Oldman
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players.… — Buddy Rich
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. — Jerry Saltz
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights… — Jerry Saltz
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen… — Pete Seeger
I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I love ice cream,… — Christopher Walken
I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the… — Helen McCrory
As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men.… — Sarah Strohmeyer
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but… — Aravind Adiga
There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you… — Irvin D. Yalom
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess… — Philip Treacy
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and… — Simon Schama
Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and… — Marianne Williamson

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