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" I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. "

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" Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.' "

Maya Angelou

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" Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. "

" I must confess, I was born at a very early age. "

" Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. "

" After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. "

" Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. "

Christopher Hitchens

" Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. "

" In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. "

" On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California. "

" My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. "

" Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. "

" The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. "

" For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. "

" Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. "

" I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. "

" Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. "

" As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. "

" I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age. "

" One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. "

" If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. "

" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "

" In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' "

" A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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" I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK. "

" There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. "

" The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again. "

" We tried not to age, but time had its rage. "

" By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years. "

" As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. "

" To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. "

Bernard Baruch

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