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"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
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"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."
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"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
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"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."
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"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."
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"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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"The good thing about being old is not being young."
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"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."
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"Growing older is certain, growing wiser is harder and optional."
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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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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Old
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
Expectation
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
Poetry
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love
"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
Authenticity
"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman."
Nature
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