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Aging Quotes
"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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"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."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
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"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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"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
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"Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead."
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"A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice."
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"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"
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"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."
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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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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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