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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. – Willa Cather

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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. – Beverly Sills

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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson

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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. – Jean Paul

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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – youre lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers youre brother and sister. Thats what intimacy is, if youre with your soulmate. – Cate Blanchett

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Youre right on the money with that. Were all like detectives in life. Theres something at the end of the trail that were all looking for. – David Lynch

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London

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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. – African Proverb

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If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle

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