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“I thought getting old meant getting wise. Or at least secure. I don't know why I thought that; I don't know any wise, secure old people. Maybe I inferred it from after-school specials. And I'd like...”
“These wrinkles are the hands of time,The journeys Ive been onTheyve seen me through a thousand days,And evry victory wonThese fragile hands, With exposed bones,Are not a fearful sightBut rather, th...”
“It's not cold in here, you're just dying.”
“Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.”
“All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.”
“To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.”
“Growing old is a pathetic thing. It is full of limitations and reduction. It happens to us all, I know; but I think that it might not have to. I think it happens to those of us who request it. And ...”
“How much longer would we go on being old young people? They wavedgoodbye to me. I was moved by Annette. She and I wereexactly the same age, and she'd become one of those slightlyfaded Danish beauti...”
“There isn't a thing I can't do now that I didn't do when I was twenty-one...which gives you an idea of how pathetic I was when I was twenty-one. (That's a lie, but I might as well tell you somethin...”
“[The thief-taker] was conspicuous by his age, I should estimate he is in his middle fifties, and by a bearing, I am tempted to call it dignity, wanting in the others. He has a good head of hair, on...”
“I am tarred and feathered with Time.”
“Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.”
“John had written that normal fantasy ("normal" in the T.S. Kuhn sense) was written for the moderately educated class from suffering ennui. It was for folks stuck doing dull, repetitive work, growin...”
“We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. Theres no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. Its not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: N...”
“Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.”
“Wart meets Merlin for the first time only for Merlin, who lives backwards, it's the last time. The old wizard weeps and the boy can't understand why. It's a powerful expression of the gulf between...”
“Accepting one's age and mortality is a sign that you've now become an adult. Once you realize you no longer fit in the same jeans you did when you were 30, and the spicy foods you loved when you we...”
“You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could rise above it, to a serene, nonphysical realm. But its only through ecstasy you can do that, and ecs...”
“It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]”
“No one can turn back the clock. Lie about your age if you want, but we're all going in the same direction.”
