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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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"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."
Power
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
Mistake
"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."
Age
"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."
Age
"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."
Communication
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."
Love
"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."
Evil
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
Work
"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."
Nation
"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death."
Death
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