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"I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying."
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"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."
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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 was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to."
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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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"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."
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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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"Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity."
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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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"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world."
Curiosity
"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
Expectation
"Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere."
Imagination
"You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression."
Humor
"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."
Childhood
"The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?"
Spiritual
"Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you."
Relationship
"The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough."
Joy
"Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed."
Acceptance
"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."
Marriage
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