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There was a time when young people respected learning and literatu

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. – Doris Lessing

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what theyre learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. – Norton Juster

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The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. Its about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that its worth getting your teeth into. – Neil Jordan

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If it doesnt feel like a job and Im learning something and getting that rush that I get, I dont care if its behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon. – Benjamin Walker

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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less… – Hannah Arendt

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