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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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"Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it."
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"A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice."
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"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."
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"When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!"
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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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"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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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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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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"You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure."
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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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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
Society
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
Mortality
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
Time
"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
Religion
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
Work
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Work
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
Relationship
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
Religion
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."
Philosophy
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
Writing
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