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“I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.”

Talent Youth Materials Perfection Hollywood Claims Lays

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.”

“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”

Should Years Long Different Ends Self Moments Used House Youth Poet Garden Claims Disappointment Fixed Long Ago Pilgrimage

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.”

Persons Pain Pleasure Feet Youth Glory Claims Dare Dues Vanity Associates

Author:Francois Fenelon

“I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.”

Thinking Joy Sides Loss Youth Claims Grieving

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.”

Believe Courses Media Youth Claims Don't Believe Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Author:Michio Kaku

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

Ifs Men World Two Age Past Justice Loss Common Secret Knowing Youth Claims Bones Sly Age And Youth

Book:Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy

Source: Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy