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"As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again."
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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."
"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
"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."
"How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death."
"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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"To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book."
"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
"Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead."
"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."
"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."
"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do."
"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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