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"In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."

"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."

"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."

"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."

"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."

"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."
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"A mystic doesn't say 'I believe. They say 'I know. A true mystic will ironically speak with that self - confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self - confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general."

"People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place."

"If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God."

"The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything."

"Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens."
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