Jason Fuchs Quotes
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
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Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.
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In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
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[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
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It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.
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I am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics.
