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“They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had been waiting sinc...”
“It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.”
“Old is always fifteen years from now.”
“It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with itgradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.”
“Just because youre grown up and then some doesnt mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)”
“I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what's happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye.”
“I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shoc...”
“I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.”
“ Judge lessor at least later. Give new ideas and images a chance. Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own. Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology. Expect to...”
“A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, ...”
“Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, Respect me; Im a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.”
“The older I get, the better I was.”
“Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Too-lateness is potentially every moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it's no longer t...”
“[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old peop...”
“Sometimes the monotony of bingo and sing alongs, ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death, particularly when -- remember that I'm one of the ancient dusty p...”
“One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets”
“For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury. ”
“I am persuaded that feminism is not at the root of political correctness. The actual source is much nastier and dares not speak its name, which is simply hatred for old people. The question of domi...”
“... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about (so it is to ...”
“More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.”
