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“I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this.”

Book:Hick

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“One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.”

Age Science Time Universe Space History Evolution Moon Evidence Astronomy Investigation Testimony Orbit Event Striking Radioactive Meteorites Nebulae Redshift

Author:Henry Norris Russell

“How old are you?" asks Plastic again. "That doesn't matter," says StingRay. "What matters is how much stuff I know. People who know a lot of stuff don't need birthdays.”

Age Knowledge Birthdays

Book:Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic

Source: Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic

“...real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.”

Age Beauty Ageing

Book:The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“If true ‘fun’ taps into what makes us human, then true 'sensuality' taps into what makes us gods.”

Happiness Desire Passion Fun Human Sensuality Sensual Excitement Gods

Author:Lebo Grand

“And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider things like age and family and income to be of the same a priori order as shoe size and vocal pitch and the shape of one’s fingernails. The sort of thing that thinking about won’t change one bit. And that much said, well, she had a point.”

Love Age Relationships

Book:The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“But at what age are you forgiven your trespasses?”

Age Trespasses

Book:The Cool Part of His Pillow

Source: The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.”

Wisdom Age Knowledge Youth

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

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