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"As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse."
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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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"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."
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"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
Building
"The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins."
Trust
"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."
Life
"And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West."
Society
"Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting."
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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
Religion
"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
Travel
"If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland."
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"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."
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