"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.“

-Angela Carter

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"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"

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"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world."

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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

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"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."

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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."

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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."

-Anne Tyler

"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."

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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."

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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."

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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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