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title: "Great Old man Thoughts"
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> [I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-huxley/i-wish-you-would-let-an-old-man-who-has-had-his-share-of-fighting/)

[Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-huxley/)

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> [The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-chandor/the-original-spencer-tracy-version-of-the-old-man-and-the-sea-was/)

[J. C. Chandor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-chandor/)

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> [“Mr. Sheep Man," I asked. "Why would that old man want to eat my brains?" "Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/mr-sheep-man-i-asked-why-would-that-old-man-want-to-eat-my-brains/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [I've certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like 'American Idiot' and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-henry/i-ve-certainly-never-liked-the-idea-of-being-put-in-a-box-i-loved/)

[Joshua Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-henry/)

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> [Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/could-you-help-me-catch-the-moon-i-might-be-able-to-give-you-some/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [“All I tried to do was to give the little brute a cheerful expression. But, as it has worked out, he looks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pg-wodehouse/all-i-tried-to-do-was-to-give-the-little-brute-a-cheerful-expression-2/)

[PG Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pg-wodehouse/)

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> [“You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn't mean much in a woman. It disappears with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-o-connell/you-know-annie-a-long-time-ago-an-old-man-told-me-beauty-doesn-t-mean/)

[Ellen O'Connell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-o-connell/)

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> [“Susan bathing, surprised by the two old man. In the background the lapidation of the condemned." ("Lapidation" is good; it is much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/susan-bathing-surprised-by-the-two-old-man-in-the-background-the/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [“And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/and-after-his-death-or-even-before-it-perhaps-he-lived-on-in-camp/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

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> [“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-am-not-a-simpleton-he-said-nor-am-i-a-childish-old-man-i-dislike/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

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> [“ 'You're rather trusting, to send your guard away as you did.' Winthrop's eyes gleamed under the high sun. 'What would you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-bell/you-re-rather-trusting-to-send-your-guard-away-as-you-did-winthrop-s/)

[Sara Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-bell/)

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> [I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emo-philips/i-think-it-s-good-to-know-more-than-the-average-guy-if-i-m-in-a-bar/)

[Emo Philips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emo-philips/)

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> [“Poem for My Father You closed the door. I was on the other side, screaming. It was black in your mind. Blacker…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toi-derricotte/poem-for-my-father-you-closed-the-door-i-was-on-the-other-side/)

[Toi Derricotte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toi-derricotte/)

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> [“Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-caldwell/leanoardo-wrote-that-a-painter-should-begin-every-canvas-with-a-wash/)

[Ian Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-caldwell/)

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> [“He smiled willingly. "Well, I always aim to help others in need." "Yeah," a new voice suddenly said. "That's exactly what comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-mead/he-smiled-willingly-well-i-always-aim-to-help-others-in-need-yeah-a/)

[Richelle Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-mead/)

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> [“Three months later—a Jewish girl having in the meantime explained the fundamentals of kosher dining—he returned to the B & H Dairy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-mcinerney/three-months-later-a-jewish-girl-having-in-the-meantime-explained-the/)

[Jay McInerney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-mcinerney/)

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> [“The stable boy whose charge is this horse will receive fifty lashes for losing him," the old man said, cackling in delight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liz-braswell/the-stable-boy-whose-charge-is-this-horse-will-receive-fifty-lashes/)

[Liz Braswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liz-braswell/)

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> [“Years ago there was an old man I knew that told me he didn't trust me, because people with beards were hiding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-leckman/years-ago-there-was-an-old-man-i-knew-that-told-me-he-didn-t-trust-me/)

[Neil Leckman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-leckman/)

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> [When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/when-i-was-a-boy-of-fourteen-my-father-was-so-ignorant-i-could-hardly-3/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/young-men-i-beseech-you-earnestly-beware-of-pride-two-things-are-said/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“You took off your former way of life, the old man that is corrupted by deceitful desires … being renewed in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-moore/you-took-off-your-former-way-of-life-the-old-man-that-is-corrupted-by/)

[Beth Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-moore/)

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> [If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete - there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/if-you-think-about-the-great-religions-that-have-united-large-parts/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [“And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-rau-badami/and-as-if-he-had-read-her-thoughts-the-old-man-murmured-what-a/)

[Anita Rau Badami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-rau-badami/)

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> [And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/and-what-a-congress-of-stinks-roots-ripe-as-old-bait-pulpy-stems-rank/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

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> [“I took a leap and got lucky. I’m turning into an old man now, and the more I look back, the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johan-twiss/i-took-a-leap-and-got-lucky-i-m-turning-into-an-old-man-now-and-the/)

[Johan Twiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johan-twiss/)

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> [“Myles hugged her tightly, taking care not to bump her wounded arm. “You’re a good lad, Alan of Trebond,” he whispered. “You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamora-pierce/myles-hugged-her-tightly-taking-care-not-to-bump-her-wounded-arm-you/)

[Tamora Pierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tamora-pierce/)

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> [“But a person can be genocided-can have every connection to his past severed- and live to be an old man whose rib…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/but-a-person-can-be-genocided-can-have-every-connection-to-his-past/)

[Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/)

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> [“Had mustered at the homestead overnight,    For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are,     And the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-b-paterson/had-mustered-at-the-homestead-overnight-for-the-bushmen-love-hard/)

[A.B. Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-b-paterson/)

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> [Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/old-men-who-never-cheated-never-doubted-communicated-monthly-sit-and/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-broadbent/i-regret-behaving-badly-when-i-was-younger-i-did-not-know-any-better/)

[Jim Broadbent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-broadbent/)

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> [Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/although-not-a-very-old-man-i-have-yet-lived-a-great-deal-in-my-life/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephenie-meyer/jared-glared-balefully-at-the-old-man-his-eyes-full-of-the-shock-and/)

[Stephenie Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephenie-meyer/)

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> [Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/presently-i-shall-be-introduced-as-this-venerable-old-gentleman-and/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

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> [With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/with-false-names-on-the-right-nets-they-could-be-anybody-old-men/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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> [“But after all, dear Mr. Goldfaden," he went on, chilled by fear, "if God did not exist, what would you and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-schwarz-bart/but-after-all-dear-mr-goldfaden-he-went-on-chilled-by-fear-if-god-did/)

[André Schwarz-Bart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-schwarz-bart/)

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> [It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lithgow/it-s-very-interesting-i-had-an-extremely-intense-experience-with-my/)

[John Lithgow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lithgow/)

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> [I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dree-hemingway/i-remember-having-to-read-the-old-man-and-the-sea-and-i-didn-t-want/)

[Dree Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dree-hemingway/)

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> [“Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholaus-patnaude/once-upon-a-time-karen-saw-somebody-nobody-else-could-see-she-thought/)

[Nicholaus Patnaude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholaus-patnaude/)

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> [...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/they-discovered-only-a-small-asteroid-inhabited-by-a-solitary-old-man/)

[Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-adams/)

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> [I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/i-forewarn-you-this-will-be-a-rather-long-talk-i-am-an-old-man-i-do/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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                        "text": "I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.",
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                        "text": "“Mr. Sheep Man,\" I asked. \"Why would that old man want to eat my brains?\" \"Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy, that's why. They are nice and creamy. And sort of grainy at the same time\".”",
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                        "text": "Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But first you should think this over, boy. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.",
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                        "text": "“All I tried to do was to give the little brute a cheerful expression. But, as it has worked out, he looks positively dissipated. ' 'Just what I was going to suggest, old man. He looks as if he were in the middle of a colossal spree, and enjoying every minute of it.”",
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                        "text": "“You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn't mean much in a woman. It disappears with age. But he said some women have something better. They have a special glow that lasts all their life and just gets richer. You're like that. You really shine.”",
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                        "text": "“Susan bathing, surprised by the two old man. In the background the lapidation of the condemned.\" (\"Lapidation\" is good; it is much more elegant than \"stoning.\") \"St.”",
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                        "text": "“And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man of seventy who had once written poetry in the outside world and was therefore nicknamed The Poet. And another old man - or was it the same one? - lived in the transit camp of Vtoraya Rechka, waiting to be shipped to Kolyma, and was thought by many people to be Osip Mandelstam - which, for all I know, he may have been. That is all I have been able to find out about the last days, illness and death of Mandelstam. Others know very much less about the death of their dear ones.”",
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                        "text": "“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I feel nothing but impatience with the people who pretend that the world is other than it is. The world, Lady Slane, is pitiably horrible. It is horrible because it is based upon competitive struggle - and really one does not know whether to call the basis of that struggle a convention or a necessity. Is it some extraordinary delusion, or is it a law of life?”",
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                        "text": "“ 'You're rather trusting, to send your guard away as you did.' Winthrop's eyes gleamed under the high sun. 'What would you do, I wonder, if I attacked you just now? After all, you have neither sword nor dirk to protect yourself with.' 'I suppose I'd have to settle for killing you with my bare hands.' Gareth shrugged. 'Dispatching an old man wouldn't be one of my more pleasurable kills, but we all do what we must.' ”",
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                        "text": "I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, \"Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?\" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.",
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                        "text": "“Poem for My Father You closed the door. I was on the other side, screaming. It was black in your mind. Blacker than burned-out fire. Blacker than poison. Outside everything looked the same. You looked the same. You walked in your body like a living man. But you were not. would you not speak to me for weeks would you hang your coat in the closet without saying hello would you find a shoe out of place and beat me would you come home late would i lose the key would you find my glasses in the garbage would you put me on your knee would you read the bible to me in your smoking jacket after your mother died would you come home drunk and snore would you beat me on the legs would you carry me up the stairs by my hair so that my feet never touch the bottom would you make everything worse to make everything better i believe in god, the father almighty, the maker of heaven, the maker of my heaven and my hell. would you beat my mother would you beat her till she cries like a rabbit would you beat her in a corner of the kitchen while i am in the bathroom trying to bury my head underwater would you carry her to the bed would you put cotton and alcohol on her swollen head would you make love to her hair would you caress her hair would you rub her breasts with ben gay until she stinks would you sleep in the other room in the bed next to me while she sleeps on the pull-out cot would you come on the sheet while i am sleeping. later i look for the spot would you go to embalming school with the last of my mother's money would i see your picture in the book with all the other black boys you were the handsomest would you make the dead look beautiful would the men at the elks club would the rich ladies at funerals would the ugly drunk winos on the street know ben pretty ben regular ben would your father leave you when you were three with a mother who threw butcher knives at you would he leave you with her screaming red hair would he leave you to be smothered by a pillow she put over your head would he send for you during the summer like a rich uncle would you come in pretty corduroys until you were nine and never heard from him again would you hate him would you hate him every time you dragged hundred pound cartons of soap down the stairs into white ladies' basements would you hate him for fucking the woman who gave birth to you hate him flying by her house in the red truck so that other father threw down his hat in the street and stomped on it angry like we never saw him (bye bye to the will of grandpa bye bye to the family fortune bye bye when he stompled that hat, to the gold watch, embalmer's palace, grandbaby's college) mother crying silently, making floating island sending it up to the old man's ulcer would grandmother's diamonds close their heartsparks in the corner of the closet yellow like the eyes of cockroaches? Old man whose sperm swims in my veins, come back in love, come back in pain.”",
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                        "text": "“Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Most painters do the opposite, starting with a whitewash and adding the shadows last. But Paul, who knows Leonardo so well you'd thing the old man slept on the bottom bunk, understands the value of starting with the shadows. The only things people can ever know about you are the ones you let them see.”",
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