“But when you are older, nothing you did when you were young matters at all. I know that now, though I didn't know it then. We were simply young.”

— Richard Ford

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American novelist and short story writer 1944

Steve Perry (1947) American writer

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“Love is a very strange idea. I never know what it is. When you were young it seemed to be all intensity and no opportunity. Later when you did get the opportunity the fire had gone out of it.”

Bernard MacLaverty book Cal

Source: Novels, Cal (1983), Ch.5 - p.140

“When I was young, times were hard.
When I got older it was worse.”

Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter

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Transverse City (1989)

“We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Diplomatic Immunity

Source: Diplomatic Immunity

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

“Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Midnight Palace

Source: The Midnight Palace

“Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: The Marriage of Opposites

“When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.”

Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician

Quoted in News.com.au, "Abbott OK being a 'lame, gay, churchy loser'" in news.com.au from all angles http://web.archive.org/web/20090829085019/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25992545-421,00.html, August 28 2009.
2009

“[T]he older I get the more I realise that the world is not as varied as we thought it was when we were young. Most places are much alike.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)

“But when you are older, nothing you did when you were young matters at all. I know that now, though I didn't know it then. We were simply young.”

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