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“I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.”
“Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business.”
“Wow. Look at the lines in your face, Missy. It's like your bitterness just dug in and stayed.”
“Although generally our sight diminishes with age; I submit that our vision improves. The older we get, the more clearly we see our lifes decisions played out to their logical conclusions.”
“We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.”
“The compensation of growing old...was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of t...”
“In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and...”
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really true to life? ---It is, it's all true to life, for anything can happen to a man. Your...”
“We watch our bodies and our brains slow down as younger bodies and brains zip past us, and we just accept it, not realizing there is a whole world offering to sharpen and improve us. We simply need...”
“I love opera. Si. But I am old. No passion in my life, you know? I work, I walk slowly now through my years...but opera! I see, I hear that passion, Eva. Is like the passion of youth. And I live ag...”
“Nursing homes and rest homes are all the rage round here. Most of us will be in them before very long. Do you fancy that? Are you looking forward to it? No, neither am I. But I'm doing something ab...”
“Know this: even if youre like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that youre dead by now. (p.125 )”
“He'd grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.”
“Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.”
“After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.”
“They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can ...”
“The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be something of a high-miler, and old-timer, although there are plenty of older ones running. But over ...”
“Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.”
“our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.”
“Why is it amazing that I dont act my age? Why should I act my age? Or more to the point, how is someone my age supposed to act? Old age is part fact, part state of mind, part luck, and wholly somet...”
