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«Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.»
«I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.»
Author: Cybill Sheperd | About: Sex | Keywords: have sex, lied, older, So I, supposed
«I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.»
«I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: dare, older
«Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.»
Author: Bette Davis | About: Men and Women | Keywords: attractive, make up, older
«Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.»
«I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final exam.»
«How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!»
«I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Age, Love | Keywords: older
«I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.»

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