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"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."
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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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"The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned."
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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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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."
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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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"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."
Love
"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."
Time
"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered."
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"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
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"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
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"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
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"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
Woman
"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
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"My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation."
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