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"If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old."
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"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"
"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
"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."
"I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things."
"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."
"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."
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"I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day."
"Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes."
"Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff."
"If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old."
"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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