“Not every man masters the art and craft of growing older with the passage of years.” — Walter Raleigh, “Don Quixote,” The Times Literary Supplement (1916-04-27)
Tag: aging
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“Unresolved problems, like wine, get more expensive with age but, unlike wine, do not get better.” — Yahooey
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“In another regrettable development, I am no longer thirteen, and apparently won’t be again.” — Tim Kreider, “The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover,” The New Yorker (2013-07-16)
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“Perhaps it is true that, for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever eighteen.” — Vikram Seth, Two Lives
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“It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.” — Evelyn Waugh, “Why Glorify Youth?” Woman’s Journal (March 1932)
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“Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de León and the cosmetics industry: it doesn’t age.” — Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos
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“The older we become, the more certain our future.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection (1988)
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“Because inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” — Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
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“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)
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