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"All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes - a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners."
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Personal Development
"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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Personal Development
"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"
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Personal Development
"We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old."
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Personal Development
"The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it."
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Personal Development
"Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality."
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"One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over."
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"The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch."
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"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."
Psychology
"JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more?LENORE: I would kill for a shower."
Truth
"Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're OK."
Sports
"This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway."
Philosophy
"Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod."
Aging
"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
God
"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."
Fact
"People hate people, not freedom."
Humanity
"A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?"
Life
"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."
Insight
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