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“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

Thinking Feels Should Kind Age Form Young Taken Wonderful Encouragement Artistic Endeavor Scope Attempting Young Writers Inexperience

Author:Tea Obreht

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.”

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”

Light Age Taken Five Twenties Candle Candle Lights

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?”

Matter States Care Age House Given Grows Half Taken Youth Old Age Health Care Idle Earning Wheat Prudent Diligent Deposits Thrifty

Author:David Frum

“The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.”

Should Mind Children Age Mother Steps Taken Protect Silly Ignorant Tendencies Nurse Superstitions

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.”

People Hands Age Night Taken Wife Sea Rivers Fishes Old Age Boat Lakes Fishing Ponds Promiscuous Bridal

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.”

Age Next Taken Taxes Pleasant Posterity

Author:Jonathan Swift

“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.”

World Wells Said Stills Book Age Remember Spiritual Belief Pleasure Boys Forever Taken Middle Century Proud Winter Clock Compliment Far Away Middle Ages Austria Slurs

Book:The Mysterious Stranger

Source: The Mysterious Stranger

“Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.”

Humans Made Book Different Hands Age Taken Written Magic Bible Criticism Historical Made It Investigation Literary Criticism Composites Different Ages Many Hands

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.”

Two Age Women Taken Periods Ninety Sixteen

Book:A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

Source: A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

“It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey...An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.”

Firsts May Ends Government Age Order Sex Existence Taken Decided Paid Regard Criminals Genocide Turkeys Scruples Armenians Armenian Genocide

Author:Talaat Pasha

“Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.”

Men Way Kind Bigs Seems Age Taken Acceptance Cat Old Age All Kinds Irony Ironic Betray Torn Sentimentality Resigned Burroughs

Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.”

World Age Cities Taken Modern Middle University Symbols Modern World Middle Ages Cathedrals

Author:Roger Revelle

“Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.”

“Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.”

Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance. . . . Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.”

Ifs Should Age Taken Unique Should Have Regard Ancient Typical Elegance Sophistication

Author:Rolfe Humphries

“I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.”

Age Wanted Young Memories Taken Reader Becoming Library Locals Logical Young Age Librarian Booksellers

Author:Michael Scott

“I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to write a novel that shows the points of view of people of different ages and personalities.”

People Thinking Writing Years Different Shows Age Able Process Views Novel Taken Personality Gains Point Of View Life Experience Writing Process Different Ages

Author:Kathleen Winter

“Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.”

Kind Children Facts Age Emotion Taken Daughter Relate Away From You Grandson Having A Daughter

Author:Judi Dench

“Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.”

Trying Age Force Behinds Taken Weak Old Age Parts Of Life Baggage

Book:Visitation

Source: Visitation

“What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.”

Thinking Age Sound Taken This Day Psychics

Author:Sylvia Browne

“I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food.”

“From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.”

Age Young Taken Stage Band Ambition Musician Young Age Pursued

Author:Cillian Murphy

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