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"Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back. Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We-by whom I mean anyone over sixty-commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight."
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"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?"
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"As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."
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"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."
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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
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"A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice."
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"Jason hated being an old man."
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"Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality."
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"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."
Purpose
"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."
Dream
"He was my best friend and I needed him."
Friendship
"Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap."
Death
"If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?"
Satire
"Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write."
Learning
"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."
Abuse
"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."
Escape
"Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive."
Grief
"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."
Addiction
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