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> [“I was extremely shy of approaching my hero but he, as I found out, was sorely in need of company. By then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-was-extremely-shy-of-approaching-my-hero-but-he-as-i-found-out-was/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“Sonny shows me his phone. It’s a text message from Rapid, sent this morning, and it consists of one simple-but-not-so-simple question: Wanna…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angie-thomas/sonny-shows-me-his-phone-it-s-a-text-message-from-rapid-sent-this/)

[Angie Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angie-thomas/)

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> [The road falls dark as day turns to night. Light no longer found on this road travelled. Why dont you settle? Life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaitlyn-norton/the-road-falls-dark-as-day-turns-to-night-light-no-longer-found-on/)

[Kaitlyn Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaitlyn-norton/)

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> [“I think you're beautiful," an old man at the counter - one of our Sunday night fixtures - says. ... "You passed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/i-think-you-re-beautiful-an-old-man-at-the-counter-one-of-our-sunday/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

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> [You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/you-and-i-have-formerly-seen-warm-debates-and-high-political-passions/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/duane-michals/photography-is-essentially-an-act-of-recognition-by-street/)

[Duane Michals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/duane-michals/)

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> [“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/in-childhood-you-long-to-grow-up-fast-because-older-people-are-more/)

[Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/)

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> [“How you holding up, old man?” Daniel calls A.J. “old man” despite the fact that Daniel is five years older than A.J.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-zevin/how-you-holding-up-old-man-daniel-calls-a-j-old-man-despite-the-fact/)

[Gabrielle Zevin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-zevin/)

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> [There's always a handful of 40-year-old dudes. I don't know why that is exactly. I don't know if it's like my looks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-loveless/there-s-always-a-handful-of-40-year-old-dudes-i-don-t-know-why-that/)

[Lydia Loveless](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-loveless/)

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> [“Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a moment.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-novak/of-course-a-new-consciousness-i-that-that-is-the-word-said-the-old/)

[Michael Novak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-novak/)

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> [“The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jaden’s first inclination was to yell and demand his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/courtney-kirchoff/the-two-studied-one-another-for-what-seemed-hours-neither-saying-a/)

[Courtney Kirchoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/courtney-kirchoff/)

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> [“ ... family men, Claude." "Then why aren't they home with their families?" "You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It takes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-woolf/family-men-claude-then-why-aren-t-they-home-with-their-families-you/)

[Douglas Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-woolf/)

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> [“The indolent old man hopes that his death is still a long way off. But repentance and remorse belong to the eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ren-kierkegaard/the-indolent-old-man-hopes-that-his-death-is-still-a-long-way-off-but/)

[Søren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ren-kierkegaard/)

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> [A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/a-formative-influence-on-my-undergraduate-self-was-the-response-of-a/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“In the morning After taking cold shower —-what a mistake—- I look at the mirror. There, a funny guy, Grey hair, white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nanao-sakaki/in-the-morning-after-taking-cold-shower-what-a-mistake-i-look-at-the/)

[Nanao Sakaki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nanao-sakaki/)

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> [“Lincoln did not belong to any church, and avoided religious discussions even with his best friends. However, he once told Herndon that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-carnegie/lincoln-did-not-belong-to-any-church-and-avoided-religious/)

[Dale Carnegie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-carnegie/)

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> [“Put on what weary negligence you please, You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question: If he dislike it, let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/put-on-what-weary-negligence-you-please-you-and-your-fellows-i-ll/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ruark/rich-the-old-man-said-dreamily-is-not-baying-after-what-you-can-t/)

[Robert Ruark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ruark/)

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> [“Lucy's eyes began to grow accustomed to the light, and she saw the trees that were nearest her more distinctly. A great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/lucy-s-eyes-began-to-grow-accustomed-to-the-light-and-she-saw-the/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [“Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/tell-her-i-m-sorry-i-sold-the-diamond-eh-sammy-said-i-broke-my/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [“That summer I spent a whole month at the place, and every day I went to fish in the early morning, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-aksakov/that-summer-i-spent-a-whole-month-at-the-place-and-every-day-i-went/)

[Sergei Aksakov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergei-aksakov/)

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> [“Once, in ancient China, there was a serious drought when the grain died and did not grow back. People starved, until an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antony-cummins/once-in-ancient-china-there-was-a-serious-drought-when-the-grain-died/)

[Antony Cummins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antony-cummins/)

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> [“I look away from her. “I have felt like an old man my whole life. And they get to have fun and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-porpora/i-look-away-from-her-i-have-felt-like-an-old-man-my-whole-life-and/)

[Kenny Porpora](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-porpora/)

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> [“I rose on still unsteady legs to walk over and shake Mr. Grave’s hand. The doctor simply stared over my head, seeming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meg-cabot/i-rose-on-still-unsteady-legs-to-walk-over-and-shake-mr-grave-s-hand/)

[Meg Cabot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meg-cabot/)

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> [Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/sex-makes-things-strained-there-are-lovely-people-in-oneida-but/)

[Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/)

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> [“Your cynicism lies in your willing abuse of others to consolidate your superiority over them. My cynicism is in regard to humanity’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/your-cynicism-lies-in-your-willing-abuse-of-others-to-consolidate/)

[Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-erikson/)

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> [I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-m-just-full-of-surprises-watching-her-he-waved-the-wrapped-bar-from/)

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

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> [“John Noa moved slowly toward the window. Old age had not been kind to him, and though he could still sit a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-forde/john-noa-moved-slowly-toward-the-window-old-age-had-not-been-kind-to/)

[Patricia Forde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-forde/)

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> [From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-peter-blatty/from-the-cab-stepped-a-tall-old-man-black-raincoat-and-hat-and-a/)

[William Peter Blatty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-peter-blatty/)

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> [“In a long life, said many an old man, this is but one more thing. Yet there were others who were young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesse-ball/in-a-long-life-said-many-an-old-man-this-is-but-one-more-thing-yet/)

[Jesse Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesse-ball/)

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> [Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-ray-pollock/part-of-the-reason-might-be-that-i-was-born-in-1954-and-i-look-upon/)

[Donald Ray Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-ray-pollock/)

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> [“Rose, we were seen together naked and in my bed by my brother, my butler and two men who are about to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-smith/rose-we-were-seen-together-naked-and-in-my-bed-by-my-brother-my/)

[Kathryn Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathryn-smith/)

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> [And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-smith/and-in-any-case-to-the-old-man-when-the-world-becomes-trite-the/)

[Alexander Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-smith/)

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> [“Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/some-of-the-younger-fishermen-those-who-used-buoys-as-floats-for/)

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

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> [“I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-clarke/i-am-an-old-man-and-i-here-declare-that-i-never-knew-them-to-be/)

[Adam Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-clarke/)

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> [“I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-palmieri/i-m-an-old-man-now-old-on-the-inside-i-m-a-drunk-and-i-hate-to-tell/)

[Suzanne Palmieri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-palmieri/)

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> [“Who had uttered these words? They had not frightened me. They were clearly audible to me yet I knew the did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/who-had-uttered-these-words-they-had-not-frightened-me-they-were/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

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> [“To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-pyle/to-me-the-summer-wind-in-the-midwest-is-one-of-the-most-melancholy/)

[Ernie Pyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-pyle/)

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> [“The Republican establishment is haunted by painful memories of what happened to Old Man Bush in 1992. He peaked too early and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hunter-s-thompson/the-republican-establishment-is-haunted-by-painful-memories-of-what/)

[Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hunter-s-thompson/)

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> [“The old man was packing his bags as fast as he could. Other people had done this for him for decades, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-sierer/the-old-man-was-packing-his-bags-as-fast-as-he-could-other-people-had/)

[Barry Sierer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-sierer/)

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                        "text": "“Sonny shows me his phone. It’s a text message from Rapid, sent this morning, and it consists of one simple-but-not-so-simple question: Wanna meet up? My mouth drops. “Seriously?” “Seriously,” Sonny says. “Holy shit.” There’s one problem though. “Why haven’t you responded?” “I don’t know,” he says. “Part of me is like, hell yeah. The other part feels like this shit is too good to be true. What if he’s really a fifty-year-old man who lives in his mom’s basement and has a malicious plot to murder me and leave my body parts spread out across his backyard, unknown to anyone, until twenty years from now when a stray dog sniffs me out?” I stare at him. “The specifics in your examples are disturbing sometimes.”",
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                        "text": "The road falls dark as day turns to night. Light no longer found on this road travelled. Why dont you settle? Life. Answers the stranger entangled by shadows. Aging words reach the young mans ears, Why do you keep moving? Eyes spark a dazzling flame, Lack of Truth. They deny my right to Live. Brothers, the old man whispers. We are brothers in Arms. Before Freedom there shall always be strife, Remember the Heroes, for you who have Died. Now answer! Why dont you settle?",
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                        "text": "“I think you're beautiful,\" an old man at the counter - one of our Sunday night fixtures - says. ... \"You passed the Earl test,\" she says as she pours him a fresh cup. \"Ma, he says that to anyone who still has their own teeth. No offense, Earl.\" \"None taken,\" he says. \"But you got your own hair too, so you're twice as pretty.”",
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                        "text": "You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.",
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                        "text": "Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.",
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                        "text": "“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow up immediately. Old people are wise, and the child feels that whatsoever he is doing is always wrong. Then ask the old man – he always thinks that when childhood was lost, everything was lost; paradise was there in childhood. And all the old men die thinking of childhood, the innocence, the beauty, the dreamland. Whatsoever”",
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                        "text": "“How you holding up, old man?” Daniel calls A.J. “old man” despite the fact that Daniel is five years older than A.J. “I’ve lost my fortune, and the doctor says I’m going to die, but other than that, I’m fantastic.” The sedative has given him perspective. “Great. Let’s get drinks.” Daniel turns to Nurse Jill and whispers something in her ear. When Daniel returns the book to her, A.J. can see that he has written his phone number. “Come, thou monarch of the vine!” Daniel says as he heads for the exit.”",
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                        "text": "There's always a handful of 40-year-old dudes. I don't know why that is exactly. I don't know if it's like my looks or the music or what, but I seem to just really appeal to that age group. A lot of people have said to me, \"What's with all the old men?,\" and they laugh. But to me, those are my fans and I'm happy they exist.",
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                        "text": "“Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a moment. 'That is what I hope it is. You and your African and Colombian, you are speaking the same language now, you know the same ideas. You are conscious that life on earth is flux. Men are better educated. They are more disciplined than in the past - their schedules are harder, their lives move faster, efficiency digs into them. Men are more sophisticated -every day they have more alternatives to choose among than they can possibly exhaust. Through psychiatry they know their strengths and weaknesses. They know the risks of every choice. This is what I mean by consciousness. Men know so much about everything they do. It was much simpler when they didn't know, when they simply acted out of instinct, believed from instinct, loved from instinct, brought up children by their instincts. Perhaps people were even happier. But now we are more conscious. We have got to live with our greater knowledge. We have got to live with our greater freedom.”",
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                        "text": "“The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jaden’s first inclination was to yell and demand his freedom, but something held him back. Here was a new man, and a new set of mind games. He waited for the old man to speak first and introduce himself, as Dalton had upon their first formal meeting. The stranger remained silent.”",
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                        "text": "“ ... family men, Claude.\" \"Then why aren't they home with their families?\" \"You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It takes lots of honey to raise a family these days...\" No, it isn't even that, these teddy bears don't like honey as much as they think they do. They think they're supposed to like it, the way they're supposed to like women and children. They think they're supposed to act like real grizzlies, but they don't feel it. You can't blame them, they just don't have it inside them. What they have, what they love most, is their memories: how the Coach used to shout niceworkpal whenever they caught the big ball or somehow hit the little one, how Dad used to wink when they caught one of his jokes, how when they repeated them he almost died laughing, so they told them and told them - if they told one really well he might do it. They memorized all the conversations verbatim, that about the pussies and the coons, the homers and the balls, the cams and the bearings. They're still memorizing. You can see them almost anytime you're out driving, there in the slow car just ahead, the young man at the wheel, the old man talking, the young man leaning a little to the right in order to hear better, the old man pointing out the properties, the young man looking and listening earnestly, straining to catch the old man's last word, the last joke verbatim, the last bit of know-how about the deals and the properties and the honey. When he thinks he's learned all he can from the old man, he'll shove him out of the car. You watch, next time you're out driving. \"...these are the cream, Claude.\" These are the all-American fairies.”",
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                        "text": "“The indolent old man hopes that his death is still a long way off. But repentance and remorse belong to the eternal in a man. And in this way each time that repentance comprehends guilt it understands that the eleventh hour has come: that hour which human indolence knows well enough exists and will come, when it is talked about in generalities, but not when it actually applies to the indolent one himself. For even the old man thinks that there is some time left and the indolent youth deceives himself when he thinks that difference in age is the determining factor in regard to the nearness of the eleventh hour.”",
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                        "text": "A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: \"My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years.\" And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? \"Resign, Resign\" is a much more likely response!",
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                        "text": "“In the morning After taking cold shower —-what a mistake—- I look at the mirror. There, a funny guy, Grey hair, white beard, wrinkled skin, —-what a pity—- Poor, dirty, old man, He is not me, absolutely not. Land and life Fishing in the ocean Sleeping in the desert with stars Building a shelter in the mountains Farming the ancient way Singing with coyotes Singing against nuclear war— I’ll never be tired of life. Now I’m seventeen years old, Very charming young man. I sit quietly in lotus position, Meditating, meditating for nothing. Suddenly a voice comes to me: “To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror.”",
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                        "text": "“Lincoln did not belong to any church, and avoided religious discussions even with his best friends. However, he once told Herndon that his religious code was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he had heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: “When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”",
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                        "text": "“Put on what weary negligence you please, You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question: If he dislike it, let him to our sister, Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one, Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man, That still would manage those authorities That he hath given away! Now, by my life, Old fools are babes again; and must be used With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused. Remember what I tell you.”",
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                        "text": "Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.",
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                        "text": "“Lucy's eyes began to grow accustomed to the light, and she saw the trees that were nearest her more distinctly. A great longing for the old days when the trees could talk in Narnia came over her. She knew exactly how each of these trees would talk if only she could wake them, and what sort of human form it would put on. She looked at a silver birch; it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face, and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his face and hands, and hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah!- she would be the best of all. She would be a precious goddess, smooth and stately, the lady of the wood.”",
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                        "text": "“Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?\" Sammy said. \"I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always dreamed. I started my machine shop. Started my family! It was a good life, but Haze; was right. The diamond came with a curse. I never saw her again.\" \"Oh, Sammy,\" Hazel said. \"No, a curse didn't keep me away. I wanted to come back. I died!\" The old man didn't seem to hear. He smiled down at the baby, and kissed him on the head. \"I give you my blessing, Leo. First male great-grandchild! I have a feeling you are special, like Hazel was. You are more than a regular baby, eh? You will carry on for me. You will see her someday. Tell her hello for me.”",
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                        "text": "“That summer I spent a whole month at the place, and every day I went to fish in the early morning, in the lake formed by the mouth of of the rivulet Kakarma where it joins the charming Insa. The hut, where Yevseyitsch lived, was built close to the water's edge, and each day as I approached the lake, I perceived the bent, white-haired old man leaning against the wall of his cottage, facing the rising sun; his withered hands clasped round a staff which he pressed against his breast; while his sightless eyes were raised towards the Eastern sky. He could not see the light, but he enjoyed the warmth, which comforted him in the chilly dawn; and his countenance was at once both serene and melancholy.”",
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                        "text": "“I look away from her. “I have felt like an old man my whole life. And they get to have fun and snort their fucking drugs and get wasted and it doesn’t matter who they’re hurting because they’re young and having fun and I’m a judgmental prick if I say anything.” “Do you think they’re having fun?” I don’t have an answer for her. “I’ll never be able to compete against it.” “Maybe you don’t understand how powerful it is,” she says. “How powerful is it?” “Very.” “And that’s an excuse?” “No.” “When do they get to take responsibility?” “For themselves?” she asks. “Yes.” “Always,” she says.”",
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                        "text": "“I rose on still unsteady legs to walk over and shake Mr. Grave’s hand. The doctor simply stared over my head, seeming to notice neither my hand, nor me standing there in front of him. This was explained when Frank said to me scornfully, a second later, “He can’t see you. He’s blind. ” “Oh,” I said, feeling mortified. I hadn’t noticed until that point that Mr. Grave’s eyes had a milky-white sheen to them, and that he’d never once looked directly at anyone who was speaking. “I’m so sorry.” “Don’t be,” Mr. Graves said, managing to find my hand anyway and give it a squeeze. “It’s not your fault.” “Actually, it could have been,” Frank said. “It was a Fury that-“ “Frank, the young lady said she’d like to see the captain. Why don’t you go fetch him?” Mr. Graves snapped. To me, he said, “Miss Oliviera, I do apologize. It’s been quite some time since these fellows have been in the company of a young lady.” “Speak for yourself, old man,” Frank said. He came to his feet with sudden alacrity. “Why don’t I just take her to the captain?” “I hardly think that’s a good idea,” Mr. Liu muttered, into his teacup. “His orders were if she showed up, we were to bring her straight to him,” Frank said. Mr. Graves’s face expressed the exact dismay I felt upon being reminded of this. “Just go and fetch the captain, Frank. Or young Henry can do it.” “ What? ” Henry cried, looking stricken. “I don’t want to go down there. All those dead people. And I’m the one who always gets stuck handing out the blankets-“ “It’s not important,” I said quickly. Blankets? What blankets? What on earth as Henry talking about? “I’ll just wait until John comes back-“ “See?” Henry looked triumphant. “I told you. She’s not the one.” “It doesn’t matter,” Frank said, impatiently. “Either way, we’re stick with her.” This wasn’t a very nice thing to hear about yourself-that people thought of you as someone they were stuck with. Not that I hadn’t been thinking the very same thing about them…and not that I didn’t share Henry’s fear that I wasn’t Queen-of-the-Underworld material.”",
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                        "text": "I'm just full of surprises.\" Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. \"You can have the candy if you sit on my lap.\" That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls.\" I'm not old, and you're not stupid.\" He sat, patted his knee. \"It's Belgian chocolate.\" Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel,\" she said as she folded into his lap.",
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                        "text": "“John Noa moved slowly toward the window. Old age had not been kind to him, and though he could still sit a horse, his rigid joints grew more painful by the day. Looking down from his lofty vantage point, he could see the town below on the cusp of waking. A lone wolf stood in the square, his head tilted to one side. The old man smiled. He had always loved animals and none more than the gray wolf. Before the Melting, they had been almost eradicated, hunted to extinction. Extinction: the saddest word of all. Using science and with great care and attention, they had bred five pairs of wolves in captivity, producing fifteen new cubs, and then released them into the wild. Since then, the wolves had thrived. Amid all the destruction, it had seemed like a miracle to him. He loved the view from the high window at this time of day. The workers not yet awake and only the comforting sound of the water bubbling in the great tank. He sighed. Sadly, he couldn’t stay. He had work to do. Work! Always work. Problems to be solved, plans to be made. He had never expected it to be this difficult. On his bad days, he wondered if it had been worth it at all. Another glance at the wolf brought a smile to his lips. Yes. It was all worth it. He firmly believed that it was his passion for Ark that had kept him alive when so many had been lost. The images of death and destruction were always with him. Floods, earthquakes, famine, as livid in daylight as they were in his nightmares. Images of the past. But there were nightmares in the present too. Bandits. Desecrators. Tintown. People intent on destroying what he had built. People intent on going their own way regardless of the price. He felt the old rage stir in his heart. They would be dealt with. In the end, they would find”",
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                        "text": "From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.",
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                        "text": "“In a long life, said many an old man, this is but one more thing. Yet there were others who were young and knew nothing about the helplessness of life's condition. Did they glow with light? They did, but of course, it could not be seen. And all the while, the grinding of bones like machinery, and the light step of tightrope walkers out beyond the windows.”",
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                        "text": "Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.",
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                        "text": "“Rose, we were seen together naked and in my bed by my brother, my butler and two men who are about to become intimately acquainted with this family. We must marry.” She frowned, delicate brow pulling in a manner that made him want to kiss it smooth and promise everything would be all right. He’d do his best to make her happy. Yes, he would willfully lie to ease her burden. “But, you’ve sacrificed so much for me and Mama already.” Christ, she wasn’t going to cry, was she? “It doesn’t seem fair that you be forced to marry me because I made the mistake of coming to your room.” “Is that what it was? A mistake?” His head swam and his heart felt strangely tight. Hadn’t she told him earlier that she wanted this? Perhaps she hadn’t come right out and said it, but he had thought it was obvious. Her eyes widened, big brown circles that stared helplessly at him. “You aren’t the least bit angry with me, are you?” “No,” he replied. “Strangely enough I’m not angry at myself either, although I could strangle Bronte’s future father-in-law for arriving when he did.” Rose glanced away, but not before he saw the flash of desire in her eyes as she remembered what he was about to do to her before they were interrupted. “Yes, I could strangle the poor man as well.” Sweet God, were it not for Bronte he’d throw her on the bed right now and screw her senseless. “When I return I will procure a special license for us to marry.” Her gaze flew to his. “Grey-“ He could not bear to have her refuse him now. “We will be wed. And then we will continue what we begun tonight-no interruptions.” And just in case she didn’t believe him, he too her by the arms and hauled her roughly against his chest, lowering his head to bruise her lips with his own. She was his now. Or at least, she soon would be. Till death do them part. As he left her to rejoin the men downstairs, he found himself wishing to live to be a very old man.”",
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                        "text": "And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.",
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                        "text": "“Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as el mar which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”",
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                        "text": "“I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of much evil. Music as a science I esteem and admire, but instrumental music in the house of God I abominate and abhor. This is the abuse of music, and I here register my protest against all such corruption of the worship of the author of Christianity.”",
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                        "text": "“I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away again. Or hell, stay here and hate me. Just...know that I love you the best way I know how. I always have. I do the best I can.”",
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                        "text": "“Who had uttered these words? They had not frightened me. They were clearly audible to me yet I knew the did not ring out across the air like the chilling cough of the old man in the chair, They came from deep inside me, from my soul. Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had.”",
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                        "text": "“To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so far away and blows so gently and yet so relentlessly; it rustles the leaves and the branches of the maple trees in a sort of symphony of sadness, and it doesn't pass on and leave them still. It just keeps coming, like the infinite flow of Old Man River. You could -- and you do -- wear out your lifetime on the dusty plains with that wind of futility blowing in your face. And when you are worn out and gone, the wind -- still saying nothing, still so gentle and sad and timeless -- is still blowing across the prairies, and will blow in the faces of the little men who follow you, forever.”",
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