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"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."

John le Carre on Age

More quotes about Age

  • "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

    Mark Twain on Age

  • "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

    Henry Ford on Age

  • "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

    Mark Twain on Age

  • "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

    Kurt Vonnegut on Age

  • "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

    Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by John le Carre

  • "By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."

  • "I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

  • "I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making."

  • "More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature."

  • "The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."

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