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title: "Inspiring Old man Sayings"
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> [Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-le-carre/look-we-re-getting-to-be-old-men-and-we-ve-spent-our-lives-looking/)

[John le Carre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-le-carre/)

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> [“The head of the sledgehammer was cold, icy cold, and it touched his forehead as gently as a kiss. 'Pock! There,' said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-head-of-the-sledgehammer-was-cold-icy-cold-and-it-touched-his/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-goudge/i-loathe-detest-hate-and-abominate-the-block-the-gibbet-the-rack-the/)

[Elizabeth Goudge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-goudge/)

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> [“Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man. "What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/everyone-believes-the-world-s-greatest-lie-says-the-mysterious-old/)

[paulo coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wesley-powell/i-have-heard-the-venerable-and-impassioned-orator-on-the-camp-meeting/)

[John Wesley Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wesley-powell/)

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> [From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout act that ever was in the history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/buster-keaton/from-the-time-i-was-7-or-8-years-old-we-were-the-roughest-knockabout/)

[Buster Keaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/buster-keaton/)

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> [And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/and-grace-calls-out-you-are-not-just-a-disillusioned-old-man-who-may/)

[Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/)

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> [Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-black/let-her-alone-said-the-enkanto-or-i-will-curse-you-blind-lame-and/)

[Holly Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-black/)

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> [An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/an-enemy-ender-wiggin-whispered-the-old-man-i-am-your-enemy-the-first/)

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

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> [“God’s full name was Godofredo. He was actually Fredo’s nephew, which made me speculate that Fredo might be short for the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurell-k-hamilton/god-s-full-name-was-godofredo-he-was-actually-fredo-s-nephew-which/)

[Laurell K. Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurell-k-hamilton/)

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> [“There was once a man who yearned to live forever. Beginning in his youth, he prayed for God to grant him immortality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-was-once-a-man-who-yearned-to-live-forever-beginning-in-his/)

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

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> [“anyone before! Excited about his trip to Bombay, Ramkrishna trotted alongside his mama to the railway station. He patted the bundle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neelima-dalmia-adhar/anyone-before-excited-about-his-trip-to-bombay-ramkrishna-trotted/)

[Neelima Dalmia Adhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neelima-dalmia-adhar/)

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> [“I prayed to a mystery. Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mcgee/i-prayed-to-a-mystery-sometimes-i-was-simply-aware-of-the-mystery-i/)

[Margaret McGee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mcgee/)

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> [“Hmm..." said the old man, looking at all sides of the book, as if it were some strange object. "This is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/hmm-said-the-old-man-looking-at-all-sides-of-the-book-as-if-it-were/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-old-man-has-been-long-at-the-fair-he-is-acquainted-with-the/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [“How funny you are today New York like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime and St. Bridget’s steeple leaning a little to the left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/how-funny-you-are-today-new-york-like-ginger-rogers-in-swingtime-and/)

[Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/)

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> [“Our time is too short to waste walking down paths to nowhere.” The old man averted his gaze away from the cooking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-bax/our-time-is-too-short-to-waste-walking-down-paths-to-nowhere-the-old/)

[Timothy Bax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-bax/)

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> [“When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance - extraordinary performance, better than your competitors - when that performance disappears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-kuan-yew/when-you-re-singapore-s-leader-and-your-existence-depends-on/)

[Lee Kuan Yew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-kuan-yew/)

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> [“At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/at-the-fishhouses-although-it-is-a-cold-evening-down-by-one-of-the/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

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> [“I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-powers/i-picked-up-an-old-microscope-at-a-flea-market-in-verona-in-the-long/)

[Richard Powers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-powers/)

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> [“Once, on ancient Earth, there was a human boy walking along a beach. There had just been a storm, and starfish had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/once-on-ancient-earth-there-was-a-human-boy-walking-along-a-beach/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

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> [“You told me he was dead." Red said through his teeth, "There was no point,for there's no meaner, more petty man in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-hawkins/you-told-me-he-was-dead-red-said-through-his-teeth-there-was-no-point/)

[Karen Hawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-hawkins/)

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> [I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-butler/i-was-always-really-shy-that-s-why-being-in-front-of-cameras-like/)

[Austin Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/austin-butler/)

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> [“Later on, Orpheus stood beside the hearth fire in the center of the hall and sang about the day’s adventure. On his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-m-friesner/later-on-orpheus-stood-beside-the-hearth-fire-in-the-center-of-the/)

[Esther M. Friesner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-m-friesner/)

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> [“Like the Church the individual Christian will not be able to escape the deep ambiguities of this-wordly existence whether in its cultural,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-f-torrance/like-the-church-the-individual-christian-will-not-be-able-to-escape/)

[Thomas F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-f-torrance/)

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> [It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-best-to-lay-our-plans-widely-in-youth-for-then-land-is-cheap/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“And so it came about that the demon king Mara found himself staring at a most unwelcome intruder. He glared at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/and-so-it-came-about-that-the-demon-king-mara-found-himself-staring/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [“Then he withdrew in silence, but shaking his head as though inwardly exclaiming, “An Unbeliever.” No! low as I have fallen, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/then-he-withdrew-in-silence-but-shaking-his-head-as-though-inwardly/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [“What was needed, was not merely a resolute man, but a man who was also free from the net of legal controls.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/livy/what-was-needed-was-not-merely-a-resolute-man-but-a-man-who-was-also/)

[Livy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/livy/)

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> [You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/you-obviously-don-t-know-what-an-old-man-of-the-sea-great-wealth-is/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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> [Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-p-kinsella/praise-the-name-of-baseball-the-word-will-set-captives-free-the-word/)

[W. P. Kinsella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-p-kinsella/)

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> [“When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, "Many fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-vance/when-the-ships-had-lifted-they-returned-across-the-river-to-the/)

[Jack Vance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-vance/)

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> [“Obey,' like 'worship,' is a strong word. Her mother and father had told her so, and she believed them. They gave her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monique-truong/obey-like-worship-is-a-strong-word-her-mother-and-father-had-told-her/)

[Monique Truong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monique-truong/)

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> [“Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/lost-ye-way-in-the-dark-said-the-old-man-he-stirred-the-fire-standing/)

[Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/)

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> [“...So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know. I have never known such happiness, shot through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherry-thomas/so-far-i-have-restrained-myself-for-how-much-longer-i-do-not-know-i/)

[Sherry Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherry-thomas/)

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> [Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hesketh-pearson/do-you-believe-in-god-perhaps-you-aren-t-old-enough-the-reason-old/)

[Hesketh Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hesketh-pearson/)

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> [“My grief is my castle, which like an eagle's nest is built high up on the mountain peaks among the clouds; nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ren-kierkegaard/my-grief-is-my-castle-which-like-an-eagle-s-nest-is-built-high-up-on/)

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

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> [“The guard locks the gates of the turbeh, letting the heavy sound of the lock fall into the dark interior, as though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milorad-pavi/the-guard-locks-the-gates-of-the-turbeh-letting-the-heavy-sound-of/)

[Milorad Pavic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milorad-pavi/)

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> [“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/life-is-a-strange-thing-why-this-longing-for-life-it-is-a-game-which/)

[Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/)

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> [“The Old Man at the Wheel Measured against the immeasurable universe, no word you have spoken brought light. Brought light to what,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-bidart/the-old-man-at-the-wheel-measured-against-the-immeasurable-universe/)

[Frank Bidart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-bidart/)

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                        "text": "Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?",
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                        "text": "“The head of the sledgehammer was cold, icy cold, and it touched his forehead as gently as a kiss. 'Pock! There,' said Czernobog. 'Is done.' There was a smile on his face that Shadow had never seen before, an easy, comfortable smile, like sunshine on a summer's day. The old man walked over to the case, and he put the hammer away, and closed the bag, and pushed it back under the sideboard. 'Czernobog?' asked Shadow. Then, 'Are you Czernobog?' 'Yes. For today,' said the old man. 'By tomorrow, it will all be Bielebog. But today, is still Czernobog.' 'Then why? Why didn't you kill me when you could?' The old man took out an unfiltered cigarette from a pack in his pocket. He took a large box of matches from the mantelpiece and lit the cigarette with a match. He seemed deep in thought. 'Because,' said the old man, after some time, 'there is blood. But there is also gratitude. And it has been a long, long winter.”",
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                        "text": "Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.",
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                        "text": "An enemy, Ender Wiggin,\" whispered the old man. \"I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.",
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                        "text": "“God’s full name was Godofredo. He was actually Fredo’s nephew, which made me speculate that Fredo might be short for the same name, but when asked Fredo had given a flat look that made everyone drop the subject. Fredo was slender, not that tall, and honed down to lanky muscle like the slender blades he favored. God was inches taller, broader, and packed on muscle so that the nickname didn’t seem funny when you saw him step into the practice ring. “Hey, old man, aren’t you going to run with us?” God called. Fredo paused in his weight lifting with a barbell packed with the body weight of most of the smaller men here. He didn’t put it back on the rack; he held it partway lifted and answered in a voice without any hint of strain. “When you can beat me in the practice ring, then you can call me old; until then, shut the fuck up.” He started doing reps with the bar. God chuckled, and the sound matched the big chest. They liked each other, but it was guy liking, so there was a lot of cussing and good-natured jibes exchanged. Until I’d hung out with enough men I’d never realized that fuck you could be an endearment of the highest order.”",
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                        "text": "“I prayed to a mystery. Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip to New York that David and I took before we were married. We were walking on a busy sidewalk in Manhattan. I don't remember if it was day or night. A man with a wound on his forehead came toward us. His damp, ragged hair might have been clotted with blood, or maybe it was only dirt. He wore deeply dirty clothes. His red, swollen hands, cupped in half-fists, swung loosely at his sides. His eyes were focused somewhere past my right shoulder. He staggered while he walked. The sidewalk traffic flowed around him and with him. He was strange and frightening, and at the same time he belonged on the Manhattan sidewalk as much as any of us. It was that paradox -- that he could be both alien and resident, both brutalized and human, that he could stand out in the moving mass of people like a sea monster in a school of tuna and at the same time be as much at home as any of us -- that stayed with me. I never saw him again, but I remember him often, and when I do, I am aware of the mystery. Years later, I was out on our property on the Olympic Peninsula, cutting a path through the woods. This was before our house was built. After chopping through dense salal and hacking off ironwood bushes for an hour or so, I stopped, exhausted. I found myself standing motionless, intensely aware of all of the life around me, the breathing moss, the chattering birds, the living earth. I was as much a part of the woods as any millipede or cedar tree. At that moment, too, I was aware of the mystery. Sometimes I wanted to speak to this mystery directly. Out of habit, I began with \"Dear God\" and ended with \"Amen\". But I thought to myself, I'm not praying to that old man in the sky. Rather, I'm praying to this thing I can't define. It was sort of like talking into a foggy valley. Praying into a bank of fog requires alot of effort. I wanted an image to focus on when I prayed. I wanted something to pray *to*. but I couldn't go back to that old man. He was too closely associated with all I'd left behind.”",
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                        "text": "“Hmm...\" said the old man, looking at all sides of the book, as if it were some strange object. \"This is an important book, but it's really irritating.\" The boy was shocked. The old man knew how to read, and had already read the book. And if the book was irritating, as the old man had said, the boy still had time to change it for another. \"It's a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the world say,\" continued the old man. \"It describes people's inability to choose their own Personal Legends. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world's greatest lie.\" \"What's the world's greatest lie?\" the boy asked, completely surprised. \"It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”",
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                        "text": "The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.",
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                        "text": "“How funny you are today New York like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime and St. Bridget’s steeple leaning a little to the left here I have just jumped out of a bed full of V-days (I got tired of D-days) and blue you there still accepts me foolish and free all I want is a room up there and you in it and even the traffic halt so thick is a way for people to rub up against each other and when their surgical appliances lock they stay together for the rest of the day (what a day) I go by to check a slide and I say that painting’s not so blue where’s Lana Turner she’s out eating and Garbo’s backstage at the Met everyone’s taking their coat off so they can show a rib-cage to the rib-watchers and the park’s full of dancers with their tights and shoes in little bags who are often mistaken for worker-outers at the West Side Y why not the Pittsburgh Pirates shout because they won and in a sense we’re all winning we’re alive the apartment was vacated by a gay couple who moved to the country for fun they moved a day too soon even the stabbings are helping the population explosion though in the wrong country and all those liars have left the UN the Seagram Building’s no longer rivalled in interest not that we need liquor (we just like it) and the little box is out on the sidewalk next to the delicatessen so the old man can sit on it and drink beer and get knocked off it by his wife later in the day while the sun is still shining oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much”",
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                        "text": "“Our time is too short to waste walking down paths to nowhere.” The old man averted his gaze away from the cooking fire and covered his shoulders with a threadbare blanket the usefulness of which seemed long since to have been served. It reeked of wood smoke and stale tobacco. I knew at that moment he would give me the benefit of his wisdom. I didn’t want to lead our conversation too quickly in the direction I intended. Africa is timeless and so are her people. The minutes and the hours are unknown computations of a span irrelevant. Time is unimportant and its purpose trivial. Its allotment is measured only by the purpose of a mind composed.”",
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                        "text": "“When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance - extraordinary performance, better than your competitors - when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything... I try to tell the younger generation that and they say the old man is playing the same record, we've heard it all before. I happen to know how we got here and I know how we can unscramble it.\" - On one freak election result ruining Singapore”",
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                        "text": "“At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the gloaming almost invisible, a dark purple-brown, and his shuttle worn and polished. The air smells so strong of codfish it makes one's nose run and one's eyes water. The five fishhouses have steeply peaked roofs and narrow, cleated gangplanks slant up to storerooms in the gables for the wheelbarrows to be pushed up and down on. All is silver: the heavy surface of the sea, swelling slowly as if considering spilling over, is opaque, but the silver of the benches, the lobster pots, and masts, scattered among the wild jagged rocks, is of an apparent translucence like the small old buildings with an emerald moss growing on their shoreward walls. The big fish tubs are completely lined with layers of beautiful herring scales and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered with creamy iridescent coats of mail, with small iridescent flies crawling on them. Up on the little slope behind the houses, set in the sparse bright sprinkle of grass, is an ancient wooden capstan, cracked, with two long bleached handles and some melancholy stains, like dried blood, where the ironwork has rusted. The old man accepts a Lucky Strike. He was a friend of my grandfather. We talk of the decline in the population and of codfish and herring while he waits for a herring boat to come in. There are sequins on his vest and on his thumb. He has scraped the scales, the principal beauty, from unnumbered fish with that black old knife, the blade of which is almost worn away. Down at the water's edge, at the place where they haul up the boats, up the long ramp descending into the water, thin silver tree trunks are laid horizontally across the gray stones, down and down at intervals of four or five feet. Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, element bearable to no mortal, to fish and to seals . . . One seal particularly I have seen here evening after evening. He was curious about me. He was interested in music; like me a believer in total immersion, so I used to sing him Baptist hymns. I also sang \"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.\" He stood up in the water and regarded me steadily, moving his head a little. Then he would disappear, then suddenly emerge almost in the same spot, with a sort of shrug as if it were against his better judgment. Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, the clear gray icy water . . . Back, behind us, the dignified tall firs begin. Bluish, associating with their shadows, a million Christmas trees stand waiting for Christmas. The water seems suspended above the rounded gray and blue-gray stones. I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”",
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                        "text": "“I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science, I set up in the courtyard and examined local specimens. Pointless pleasure, stripped of ends. The ancient contadino from across the road, long since convinced that we were mad, could not resist coming over for a look. I showed him where to put his eye. I watched him, thinking, this is how we attach to existence. We look through awareness’s tube and see the swarm at the end of the scope, taking what we come upon there for the full field of sight itself. The old man lifted his eye from the microscope lens, crying. Signore, ho ottantotto anni e non ho mai Saputo prima che cosa ci fosse in una goccia d’acqua. I’m eighty-eight years old and I never knew what was in a droplet of water.”",
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                        "text": "“Once, on ancient Earth, there was a human boy walking along a beach. There had just been a storm, and starfish had been scattered along the sands. The boy knew the fish would die, so he began to fling the fish to the sea. But every time he threw a starfish, another would wash ashore. \"An old Earth man happened along and saw what the child was doing. He called out, 'Boy, what are you doing?' \" 'Saving the starfish!' replied the boy. \" 'But your attempts are useless, child! Every time you save one, another one returns, often the same one! You can't save them all, so why bother trying? Why does it matter, anyway?' called the old man. \"The boy thought about this for a while, a starfish in his hand; he answered, \"Well, it matters to this one.\" And then he flung the starfish into the welcoming sea.”",
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                        "text": "“You told me he was dead.\" Red said through his teeth, \"There was no point,for there's no meaner, more petty man in all of God's England.\" \"At least I'm not a wastrel,\" the old man snapped. Red started toward the old man, but Sophia stepped between them. \"Red, don't.\" He looked as if he might burst into flames, then snapped, \"I came to get you, Sophie.Have Mary bring your things, and let's go.”",
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                        "text": "I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was a kid, I would hide behind playing pretend. That's when I would come out of my shell. I would dress up as an old man or something and go out onto the street with my mom. I would come out of my shell that way. So I ended up stumbling into acting. It was the one thing that I found a passion for.",
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                        "text": "“Like the Church the individual Christian will not be able to escape the deep ambiguities of this-wordly existence whether in its cultural, social, political or other aspects, and he too will inevitably be a mixture of good and evil, with a compromised life, so that he can only live eschatologically in the judgment and mercy of God, putting off the old man and putting on Christ anew each day, always aware that even when he has done all that it is his duty to do he remains an unprofitable servant, but summoned to look away from himself to Christ, remembering that he is dead through the cross of Christ but alive and risen in Him. His true being is hid with Christ in God. The whole focus of his vision and the whole perspective of his life in Christ’s name will be directed to the unveiling of that reality of his new being at the parousia, but meantime he lives day by day out of the Word and Sacraments. As one baptized into Christ he is told by God’s Word that his sins are already forgiven and forgotten by God, that he has been justified once for all, and that he does not belong to himself but to Christ who loved him and gave Himself for him. As one summoned to the Holy Table he is commanded by the Word of God to live only in such a way that he feeds upon Christ, not in such a way that he feeds upon his own activities or lives out of his own capital of alleged spirituality. He lives from week to week, by drawing his life and strength from the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper, nourished by the body and blood of Christ, and in the strength of that communion he must live and work until Christ comes again. As often as he partakes of the Eucharist he partakes of the self-consecration of Jesus Christ who sanctified Himself for our sakes that we might be sanctified in reality and be presented to the Father as those whom He has redeemed and perfected (or consecrated) together with Himself in one. Here He is called to lift up his heart to the ascended Lord, and to look forward to the day when the full reality of his new being in Christ will be unveiled, making Scripture and Sacrament no longer necessary.”",
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                        "text": "It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.",
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                        "text": "“And so it came about that the demon king Mara found himself staring at a most unwelcome intruder. He glared at the naked old man sitting in lotus position before his throne. Nothing like it had happened in a long while. “Go away,” Mara growled. “Just because you got here doesn’t mean you can’t be destroyed.” The old man didn’t move. His yogic concentration must have been strong, because his lean brown body, as tough as the sinew showing under its skin, grew sharper in out-line. Mara would have commanded some lesser demons to torment the intruder, but these hermits weren’t so easily dismissed, so Mara bided his time.”",
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                        "text": "“Then he withdrew in silence, but shaking his head as though inwardly exclaiming, “An Unbeliever.” No! low as I have fallen, I am not an unbeliever. God is my witness that I believe in Him. But how did that old man address me? Nothing to be felt, nothing to affect me, nothing to draw forth tears, nothing which sprung from his heart to enter into mine, — nothing which was addressed from himself to myself. On the contrary, there was something vague, inaccentuated, applicable to any case and to none in particular: emphatic where it should have been profound, flat where it ought to have been simple; a species of sentimental sermon and theological elegy. Now and then a quotation in Latin; here and there the names of Saint Augustine and Saint Gregory, and others of the Calendar. And throughout he had the air of reciting a lesson which he had already twenty times repeated; seeming to go over a theme almost obliterated in his memory from being so long known; but not one look in his eyes, not one accent in his voice, to indicate that he was interested!”",
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                        "text": "“What was needed, was not merely a resolute man, but a man who was also free from the net of legal controls. Such being the circumstances, Quinctius declared that he would nominate Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus as Dictator, convinced that in him were courage and resolution equal to the majestic authority of that office. The proposal was unanimously approved, but Cincinnatus, hesitating to accept the burden of responsibility, asked what the Senate was thinking of to wish to expose an old man like him to what must prove the sternest of struggles; but hesitation was in vain, for when from every corner of the House came the cry that in that aged heart lay more wisdom - yes, and courage too - than in all the rest put together, and when praises, well deserved, were heaped upon him and the consul refused to budge an inch from his purpose, Cincinnatus gave way and, with a prayer to God to save his old age from bringing loss or dishonor upon his country in her trouble, was named Dictator by the consul.”",
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                        "text": "You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.",
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                        "text": "Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.",
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                        "text": "“When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, \"Many fine things your father had planned for you: learning and useful work and a life of satisfaction and peace. Do you recall this?\" \"Yes, Grandfather.\" \"The learning you shall have. You will learn patience and resource, the ability of your hands and your mind. You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful? This is Beyond; you will find that your work is never done—so therefore you may never know life of peace. However, I guarantee you ample satisfaction, for I will teach you to crave the blood of these men more than the flesh of woman.\" The old man had been as good as his word.”",
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                        "text": "“Obey,' like 'worship,' is a strong word. Her mother and father had told her so, and she believed them. They gave her life, they told her, so that she could give them grandsons. She had been prepared to perform that task from the very beginning. When her body took the first step, her mother found for her a husband. A scholar-prince, the girl had imagined. In the days that followed her mother's announcement, the girl was reminded again and again that she must obey this man. He must be wise, the girl thought. She must not displease him. He must be sensitive, the girl thought. She must not leave him. He must be kind, the girl thought. From the soft mouth of the woman who gave her life, my mother received the words that would keep her, still and unmoving, underneath the Old Man. The words swam with her in the dark and kept her from reaching up with a knife and cutting his neck like that of a chicken. Her mother told her to swallow her anger, and she gulped it down until her belly became distended with it. Worse, her mother knew that it would.”",
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                        "text": "“Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of the ashes. The kid didn’t answer. The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didnt make it to suit everbody, did he? I don’t believe he much had me in mind.”",
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                        "text": "“...So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know. I have never known such happiness, shot through with such misery. Only four days have passed, they tell me. But that is not true. It has been decades since I saw you last. You will find me a stooped old man when we meet again. Perhaps I might even need a pair of spectacles to recognize your veil. But I remain always, Your servant, C. One of Christian's onesided letters to the Baroness”",
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                        "text": "Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something… God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.",
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                        "text": "“My grief is my castle, which like an eagle's nest is built high up on the mountain peaks among the clouds; nothing can storm it. From it I fly down into reality to seize my prey; but i do not remain down there, I bring it home with me, and this prey is a picture I weave into the tapestries of my palace. There I live as one dead. I immerse everything I have experienced in a baptism of forgetfulness unto an eternal remembrance. Everything finite and accidental is forgotten and erased. Then I sit like an old man, grey-haired and thoughtful, and explain the pictures in a voice as soft as a whisper; and at my side a child sits and listens, although he remembers everything before I tell it.”",
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                        "text": "“The guard locks the gates of the turbeh, letting the heavy sound of the lock fall into the dark interior, as though leaving the name of the key inside. Dispirited, like me, he sits down on the stone beside me and closes his eyes. Just when I think he has dozed off in his part of the shade, the guard lifts his hand and points to a moth fluttering above the entrance to the tomb, having come out of our clothes or the Persian carpets in the turbeh. \"You see,\" he says to me casually, \"the moth is way up there by the white wall of the doorway, and it is visible only because it moves. From here it almost looks like a bird in the sky. That's probably how the moth sees the wall, and only we know it is wrong. But it doesn't know that we know. It doesn't even know we exist. You try to communicate with it if you can. Can you tell it anything in a way it understands; can you be sure it understood you completely?\" \"I don't know,\" I replied. \"Can You?\" \"Yes,\" the old man said quietly, and with a clap of his hands he killed the moth, then profered its crushed body on the palm of his hand. \"Do you think it didn't understand what I told it?\" \"You can do the same thing with a candle, extinguish it with your two fingers to prove you exist,\" I commented. \"Certainly, if a candle is capable of dying... Now, imagine,\" he went on, \"that there is somebody who knows about us what we know about the moth. Somebody who knows how, with what, and why this space that we call the sky and assume to be boundless, is bounded-- somebody who cannot approach us to let us know that he exists except in one way-- by killing us. Somebody, on whose garments we are nourished, somebody who carries our death in his hand like a tongue, as a means of communicating with us. By killing us, this anonymous being informs us about himself. And we, through our deaths, which may be no more than a warning to some wayfarer sitting alongside the assassin, we, I say, can at the last moment perceive, as through an opened door, new fields and other boundaries. This sixth and highest degree of deathly fear (where there is no memory) is what holds and links us anonymous participants in the game. The hierarchy of death is, in fact, the only thing that makes possible a system of contacts between the various levels of reality in an otherwise vast space where deaths endlessly repeat themselves like echoes within echoes...”",
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                        "text": "“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.”",
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                        "text": "“The Old Man at the Wheel Measured against the immeasurable universe, no word you have spoken brought light. Brought light to what, as a child, you thought too dark to be survived. By exorcism you survived. By submission, then making. You let all the parts of that thing you would cut out of you enter your poem because enacting there all its parts allowed you the illusion you could cut it from your soul. Dilemmas of choice given what cannot change alone roused you to words. As you grip the things that were young when you were young, they crumble in your hand. Now you must drive west, which in November means driving directly into the sun.”",
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