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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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"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 was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to."
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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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"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."
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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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"In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings."
Life
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
Ability
"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
Movies
"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."
Blood
"Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool."
Courage
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
Books
"Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind."
Thought
"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
Reading
"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
Books
"We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away."
Creativity
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