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- Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
- It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
- Paulette Bates Alden, 'Legacies,' Feeding the Eagles, 1988
- Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
- Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
- I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964), interview, 1959
- No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
- Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
- Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942
- I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
- Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
- Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
- Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
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