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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."
"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."
"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."
"Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died..."
"The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned."
"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
"How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death."
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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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