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That age QUOTES

1 " At that age I looked at women with brutal and emotionless judgement. Assessing the slope of their breasts, imagining how they would look in very crude positions. "

― Emma Cline , The Girls

2 " I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it. "

― Mat Johnson , Loving Day

3 " It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of frightened, children could learn several languages before reaching age of four, at that age engaging in the invention of their own languages. Play'd be play instead of being, as now, release of repressed anger. "

― John Cage , M: Writings '67-'72

4 " What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior. "

― Scott Turow , Limitations (Kindle County Legal Thriller #7)

5 " I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life. "

― Samuel Beckett , Molloy

6 " Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds of parents and school and age, things that kept you from the certain happiness that awaited. When I was a sophomore in college, I had a boyfriend who spoke breathlessly of running away to Mexico - it didn't occur to me that we could no longer run away from home. "

― Emma Cline , The Girls

7 " We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us. "

― Gume Laurel III , Blind in Justice

8 " I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce) "

9 " And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when, no they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence, but from a street I was summoned, from the branches of night, abruptly from the others, among violent fires or returning alone, there I was without a face and it touched me.  "

10 " Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom. Walls. A world completely surrounded by walls. "

11 " I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life- and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance. These furnish the building materials and plans for the future; and it is from them that age takes the stones and builds the edifice, unless the so-called wisdom of the years may have smothered the creative genius of youth. "

― Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf

12 " The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Blind Assassin

13 " Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty? "

― Patrick Henry

14 " I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa. "

― Alan Bradley , The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)

15 " It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. "

― Virginia Woolf , Jacob's Room

16 " Life was less of a mystery for every digit that age handed over to him. Time, however, became more cryptic and dealt in destructive consequences. "

― , Crocodile Chamber

17 " Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written. "

― Dan Simmons , The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

18 " We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence. "

― Tarryn Fisher , F*ck Love

19 " .. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now. "

― Anna Quindlen

20 " From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don’t look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity. "

― Flannery O'Connor , The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor