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> [My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-nelson/my-first-job-was-in-a-bohemian-polka-band-the-rejcek-family-polka/)

[Willie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-nelson/)

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> [“It was safe to say, standing as close to him as she was, that she was very aware of the rise of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacquelyn-frank/it-was-safe-to-say-standing-as-close-to-him-as-she-was-that-she-was/)

[Jacquelyn Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacquelyn-frank/)

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> [“I say, did you hear me?" The old man shook a worn walking stick at the oak. "I said move it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-say-did-you-hear-me-the-old-man-shook-a-worn-walking-stick-at-the/)

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

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> [“Look at me," he said, glancing down at his legs. "A wretched old man in a red monkey suit. A convicted murderer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-grisham/look-at-me-he-said-glancing-down-at-his-legs-a-wretched-old-man-in-a/)

[John Grisham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-grisham/)

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> [All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/all-the-lessons-learned-unlearned-the-young-who-learned-to-read-now/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

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> [ He \[Jesus\] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irenaeus-of-lyons/he-jesus-came-to-save-all-through-himself-all-i-say-who-through-him/)

[Irenaeus of Lyons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irenaeus-of-lyons/)

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> [Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/better-mendacities-than-the-classics-in-paraphrase-some-quick-to-arm/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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> [“You must teach her, eh? If you go down in battle and I have to take her into my lodge circle, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-anderson/you-must-teach-her-eh-if-you-go-down-in-battle-and-i-have-to-take-her/)

[Catherine Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-anderson/)

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> [ When that happens \[the demise of golf\], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/when-that-happens-the-demise-of-golf-old-men-will-furtively-beckon-to/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

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> [I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-k-vaughan/i-know-i-m-a-grumpy-old-man-but-i-m-always-more-delighted-by-readers/)

[Brian K. Vaughan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-k-vaughan/)

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> [“It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-verghese/it-was-a-tale-well-known-to-children-all-over-africa-abu-kassem-a/)

[Abraham Verghese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-verghese/)

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> [“that the old man should insist upon his son studying medicine and surgery, when every one knows he will inherit at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-william-polidori/that-the-old-man-should-insist-upon-his-son-studying-medicine-and/)

[John William Polidori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-william-polidori/)

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> [“Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-heller/dunbar-loved-shooting-skeet-because-he-hated-every-minute-of-it-and/)

[Joseph Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-heller/)

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> [“Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-puzo/tom-don-t-let-anybody-kid-you-it-s-all-personal-every-bit-of-business/)

[Mario Puzo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-puzo/)

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> [“do not hurry the journey at all: better that it lasts for many years and you arrive an old man on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/constantinos-p-cavafis/do-not-hurry-the-journey-at-all-better-that-it-lasts-for-many-years/)

[Constantinos P. Cavafis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/constantinos-p-cavafis/)

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> [I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-bridges/i-had-success-as-an-actor-relatively-early-when-i-was-22-i-got/)

[Jeff Bridges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-bridges/)

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> [“I think it’s plumb loco, that’s what!” The paddle thunked rhythmically against the sides of the tub, making such a din that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-anderson/i-think-it-s-plumb-loco-that-s-what-the-paddle-thunked-rhythmically/)

[Catherine Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-anderson/)

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> [“know. “Esther asks why people are sad. “‘That’s simple,’ says the old man. ‘They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/know-esther-asks-why-people-are-sad-that-s-simple-says-the-old-man/)

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

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> [Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-sullivan/have-you-ever-been-in-love-hadrian-i-m-not-sure-how-do-you-tell-love/)

[Michael J. Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-sullivan/)

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> [“I believe there is good in the world, all of it flowing in one way or another from a loving God. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-believe-there-is-good-in-the-world-all-of-it-flowing-in-one-way-or/)

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

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> [“Not so mouthy now, eh, old man?’ Sneered the elder of the two. The girl sat next to him pulled a line…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-langman/not-so-mouthy-now-eh-old-man-sneered-the-elder-of-the-two-the-girl/)

Pete Langman

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> [“He approached the great glass barrier dividing the room, and the speaker at the end of the table. "Cyclops?" he whispered, stepping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brin/he-approached-the-great-glass-barrier-dividing-the-room-and-the/)

[David Brin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brin/)

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> [“When I was small and would leaf through the Old Testament retold for children and illustrated in engravings by Gustave Dore, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/when-i-was-small-and-would-leaf-through-the-old-testament-retold-for/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [“A Word with Jose Rodriguez-Feo" As one of the secretaries of the moon The queen of ignorance, you have deplored How she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/a-word-with-jose-rodriguez-feo-as-one-of-the-secretaries-of-the-moon/)

[Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/)

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> [“Depressions and melancholy are often a cover for tremendous greed. At the beginning of an analysis there is often a depressed state…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-louise-von-franz/depressions-and-melancholy-are-often-a-cover-for-tremendous-greed-at/)

[Marie-Louise von Franz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-louise-von-franz/)

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> [“Philip gave him his hand and he clung to it as to life, for comfort in his extremity. Perhaps he had never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-somerset-maugham/philip-gave-him-his-hand-and-he-clung-to-it-as-to-life-for-comfort-in/)

[William Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-somerset-maugham/)

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> [“Another sketch-this one of Gabriel-hung on the all above the water cask. It swiveled gently on a single tack; or rather, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/another-sketch-this-one-of-gabriel-hung-on-the-all-above-the-water/)

[Tessa Dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-dare/)

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> [“You come back here, you good-for-nothing! Come help me drag these ailing bones." The old man flees toward the Lethe as fast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-whitman/you-come-back-here-you-good-for-nothing-come-help-me-drag-these/)

[Emily Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-whitman/)

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> [“It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he’s in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/it-s-total-bullshit-he-said-the-whole-thing-eighty-percent-survival-2/)

[john green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“Albert is my name,” the old man said, offering his hand. Ezra took it carefully, mindful of old bones and thin skin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-kanuckel/albert-is-my-name-the-old-man-said-offering-his-hand-ezra-took-it/)

[Michael Kanuckel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-kanuckel/)

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> [“It's just that even though I'm totally old and unhip,I remember what boys in high school were like.Especially the kind like Jack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brodi-ashton/it-s-just-that-even-though-i-m-totally-old-and-unhip-i-remember-what/)

[Brodi Ashton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brodi-ashton/)

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> [“The Gospel of Philip takes up the same theme: Jesus took them all by stealth, for he did not reveal himself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elaine-pagels/the-gospel-of-philip-takes-up-the-same-theme-jesus-took-them-all-by/)

[Elaine Pagels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elaine-pagels/)

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> [It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/it-is-wrong-to-take-an-18-year-old-boy-or-girl-and-arm-them-with/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

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> [“But what kind of love is this that is so unaware of itself that it can be hidden until the day of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/but-what-kind-of-love-is-this-that-is-so-unaware-of-itself-that-it/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [“Look at how beautiful this ink is. Now do you understand why I needed clear water? Water is the brightness of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-oise-place/look-at-how-beautiful-this-ink-is-now-do-you-understand-why-i-needed/)

Françoise Place

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> [“No," said the old man, deep under. "I don't remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War's never a winning things, Charlie. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/no-said-the-old-man-deep-under-i-don-t-remember-anyone-winning/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“Why don't you use some sense and try to be more like me? You might live to be a hundred and seven,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-heller/why-don-t-you-use-some-sense-and-try-to-be-more-like-me-you-might-2/)

[Joseph Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-heller/)

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> [“I, an old man, have written this fire report. Among other things, it was important to me, as an exercise for old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-maclean/i-an-old-man-have-written-this-fire-report-among-other-things-it-was/)

[Norman Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-maclean/)

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> [“There is a mixture of humor with drama in this part of the ceremony as well. When the old man staggered out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-seeger/there-is-a-mixture-of-humor-with-drama-in-this-part-of-the-ceremony/)

[Anthony Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-seeger/)

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> [“Joan of Arc came back as a little girl in Japan, and her father told her to stop listening to her imaginary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-thomas/joan-of-arc-came-back-as-a-little-girl-in-japan-and-her-father-told/)

[Iain Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-thomas/)

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                        "text": "“I say, did you hear me?\" The old man shook a worn walking stick at the oak. \"I said move it and I meant it! I was sitting on that rock\" -he pointed to a boulder- \"enjoying the rising sun on my old bones when you had the nerve to cast a shadow over it and chill me! Move this instant. I say!\" The tree did not respond. It also did not move. \"I won't take any more of your insolence!\" The old man began to beat on the tree with his stick. \"Move or I'll - I'll -\" \"Someone shut that looney in a cage!\" Fewmaster Toede shouted, galloping back from the front of the caravan. \"Get your hands off me!\" the old man shreiked at the draconians who ran up and accosted him. He beat on them feebly with his staff until they took it away from him. \"Arrest the tree!\" he insisted. \"Obstructing sunlight! That's the charge!”",
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                        "text": "“Look at me,\" he said, glancing down at his legs. \"A wretched old man in a red monkey suit. A convicted murderer about to be gassed like an animal. And look at you. A fine young man with a beautiful education and a bright future. Where in the world did I go wrong? What happened to me? I've spent my life hating people, and look what I have to show for it. You, you don't hate anybody. And look where you're headed. We have the same blood. Why am I here?”",
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                        "text": "All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.",
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                        "text": "He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age . . . [so that] he might be the perfect teacher in all things, perfect not only in respect to the setting forth of truth, perfect also in respect to relative age",
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                        "text": "Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non \"dulce\" non \"et decor\" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.",
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                        "text": "“You must teach her, eh? If you go down in battle and I have to take her into my lodge circle, I want to know her children are yours.” “She will learn. I will teach her honor if I kill her doing it.” Warrior plucked a blade of grass and began to nibble on it, his expression distant. Hunter recognized the signs. His brother’s thoughts were flitting to yet another place. After a moment Warrior spat and said, “Old Man tells me that you may have to strike the girl to make her obey. That is their way. She may not understand anything else. This worries me. You have a heavy hand when you grow angry. Normally, I wouldn’t be concerned, but with the yellow-hair I’m afraid your patience will snap like a wet bowstring.” Hunter scooped a handful of wood chips and tossed them into the flames. The flare of heat matched his mood. “She’s my woman, tah-mah. Let me do the worrying.” “But her bones are like a bird’s. If you lost your temper with her and used your fists, you would shatter them.” Hunter scowled and made no reply. Old Man, who had been standing nearby and listening, joined them at the fire to pour himself another measure of coffee. Once his cup was filled, he stepped back from the flames. “ Ai-ee , Hunter, are you planning to be our dinner? It’s already so hot in these woods that I’m about to stifle.” Hunter had chosen to crouch by the fire because he hoped no one would join him there, but he saw no point in telling Old Man and his brother that. “A warrior can find great truths by searching the flames.” “You have troubles with your woman, eh?” Old Man smiled. “You young braves! All too proud to seek advice. I lived with the tosi tivo for many winters, remember. I know things about them that you don’t.” A rakish grin slanted across Old Man’s crinkled face. “Especially about the women.” Hunter wasn’t in the mood for advice. “The girl is half my size. I think I can handle her without calling council.” “You disappoint me, Hunter. Where is the patience you show with the wild horses you train? Has it gone the way of the wind?” “A horse is worth the trouble. A yellow-hair is not.”",
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                        "text": "When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: \"There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time.\"",
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                        "text": "“It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision. At last, even he couldn't stomach the sight of them. But his every attempt to get rid of his slippers ended in disaster: when he tossed them out of his window they landed on the head of a pregnant woman who miscarried, and Abu Kassem was thrown in jail; when he dropped them in the canal, the slippers choked off the main drain and caused flooding, and off Abu Kassem went to jail... 'One night when Tawfiq finished, another prisoner, a quiet dignified old man, said, 'Abu Kassem might as well build a special room for his slippers. Why try to lose them? He'll never escape.' The old man laughed, and he seemed happy when he said that. That night the old man died in his sleep. We all saw it the same way. the old man was right. The slippers in the story mean that everything you see and do and touch, every seed you sow, or don't sow, becomes part of your destiny... In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves. Ghosh sighed. 'I hope one day you see this as clearly as I did in Kerchele. The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”",
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                        "text": "“that the old man should insist upon his son studying medicine and surgery, when every one knows he will inherit at least ten thousand a-year.’—‘Nothing to do with it,’ was the argument of the father; ‘who can tell what is to happen to funded, or even landed property, in England? The empire of disease takes in the world; and in all its quarters, medical knowledge may be made the key to competency and wealth.”",
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                        "text": "“Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years. “I think you’re crazy,” was the way Clevinger had responded to Dunbar’s discovery. “Who wants to know?” Dunbar answered. “I mean it,” Clevinger insisted. “Who cares?” Dunbar answered. “I really do. I’ll even go as far as to concede that life seems longer i—“ “—is longer i—“ “—is longer—IS longer? All right, is longer if it’s filled with periods of boredom and discomfort, b—“ “Guess how fast?” Dunbar said suddenly. “Huh?” “They go,” Dunbar explained. “Who?” “Years.” “Years?” “Years,” said Dunbar. “Years, years, years.” “Do you know how long a year takes when it’s going away?” Dunbar asked Clevinger. “This long.” He snapped his fingers. “A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you’re an old man.” “Old?” asked Clevinger with surprise. “What are you talking about?” “Old.” “I’m not old.” “You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow time down?” Dunbar was almost angry when he finished. “Well, maybe it is true,” Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it’s to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?” “I do,” Dunbar told him. “Why?” Clevinger asked. “What else is there?”",
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                        "text": "“Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”",
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                        "text": "“do not hurry the journey at all: better that it lasts for many years and you arrive an old man on the island, rich from all that you have gained on the way, not counting on Ithaca for riches. For Ithaca gave you the splendid voyage: without her you would never have embarked. She has nothing more to give you now. And though you find her poor, she has not misled you; you having grown so wise, so experienced from your travels, by then you will have learned what Ithacas mean.”",
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                        "text": "I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, so that road, you know, had the least resistance. I was doing my music all that time, but it's pretty hard to turn down these great movie offers. And my father counseled me; he said, \"You know, one of the wonderful things about acting is that you can incorporate all of your interests into the different parts you play.\" I'm glad I listened to the old man, because that's the way it turned out.",
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                        "text": "“I think it’s plumb loco, that’s what!” The paddle thunked rhythmically against the sides of the tub, making such a din that it nearly drowned Amy out. “If you marry up with that old man, you’ll be suppin’ sorrow with a long spoon, mark my words.” “Tom’s not so bad,” Loretta murmured. “Not so bad? He reeks! I guess maybe he’s nice enough. But, Loretta, he’s old enough to be your gramps! Even if his heart’s in the right place, how could he raise up a young’n? He’ll be six feet under before it learns to walk.”",
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                        "text": "“know. “Esther asks why people are sad. “‘That’s simple,’ says the old man. ‘They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”",
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                        "text": "Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered the comment. “What are you thinking?” Bulard asked. Hadrian shook his head. “Nothing.” “Yes, you were. What? You can tell me. I’m an excellent repository for secrets. I’ll likely forget, but if I don’t, well, I’m an old man in a remote jungle. I’m sure to die before I can repeat anything.” Hadrian smiled, then shrugged. “I was just thinking about the rain.",
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                        "text": "“I believe there is good in the world, all of it flowing in one way or another from a loving God. But I believe there's another force as well, one every bit as real as the God I have prayed to my whole life, and that it works consciously to bring all our decent impulses to ruin. Not Satan, I don't mean Satan (although I believe he is real, too), but a kind of demon of discord, a prankish and stupid thing that laughs with glee when an old man sets himself on fire trying to light his pipe or when a much-loved baby puts its first Christmas toy in its mouth and chokes to death on it.”",
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                        "text": "“Not so mouthy now, eh, old man?’ Sneered the elder of the two. The girl sat next to him pulled a line of chewing gum out of her mouth, winding it round her finger and then starting to chew it again. She had her other hand on the youth’s thigh, just below his crotch. ‘Yeah, stupid old fucker. Not so mouthy now?’ It was this lack of imagination that he deplored more than anything. ‘Can you boys not think of anything more original?”",
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                        "text": "“He approached the great glass barrier dividing the room, and the speaker at the end of the table. \"Cyclops?\" he whispered, stepping closer, clearing his tight throat, \"Cyclops, it's me, Gordon.\" The glow in the pearly lens was subdued. But the row of little lights still flashed--a complex pattern that repeated over and over like an urgent message from a distant ship in some lost code--ever, hypnotically, the same. Gordon felt a frantic dread rise within him, as when, during his boyhood, he had encountered his grandfather lying perfectly still on the porch swing, and feared to find that the beloved old man had died. The pattern of lights repeated, over and over. Gordon wondered. How many people would recall, after the hell of the last seventeen years, that the parity displays of a great supercomputer never repeated themselves? Gordon remembered a cyberneticist friend telling him the patterns of light were like snowflakes, none ever the same as any other. \"Cyclops,\" he said evenly, \"Answer me! I demand you answer--in the name of decency! In the name of the United St--\" He stopped. He couldn't bring himself to meet this lie with another. Here, the only living mind he would fool would be himself. The room was warmer than it had seemed during his interview. He looked for, and found, the little vents through which cool air could be directed at a visitor seated in the guest chair, giving an impression of great cold just beyond the glass wall. \"Dry ice,\" he muttered, \"to fool the citizens of Oz.”",
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                        "text": "“When I was small and would leaf through the Old Testament retold for children and illustrated in engravings by Gustave Dore, I saw the Lord God standing on a cloud. He was an old man with eyes, nose, and a long beard, and I would say to myself that if He had a mouth, He had to eat. And if He ate, He had intestines. But that always gave me a fright, because even though I come from a family that was not particularly religious, I felt the idea of a divine intestine to be sacrilegious. Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit... Either/or: either man was created in God's image-- and God has intestines!-- or God lacks intestines and man is not like him... Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the Creator of man.”",
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                        "text": "“A Word with Jose Rodriguez-Feo\" As one of the secretaries of the moon The queen of ignorance, you have deplored How she presides over imbeciles. The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world? Is lunar Habana the Cuba of the self? We must enter boldly that interior world To pick up relaxations of the known. For example, the old man selling oranges Sleeps by his basket. He snores. His bloated breath Bursts back. what not quite realized transit Of ideas moves wrinkled in a motion like The cry of an embryo? the spirit tires, It has, long since, grown tired, of such ideas. It says there is an absolute grotesque. There is a nature that is grotesque within The boulevards of the generals. Why should We say that it is man's interior world Or seeing the spent, unconscious shapes of night, Pretend they are shapes of another consciousness? The grotesque is not a visitation. It is Not apparition but appearance, part Of that simplified geography, in which The sun comes up like news from Africa.”",
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                        "text": "“Depressions and melancholy are often a cover for tremendous greed. At the beginning of an analysis there is often a depressed state of resignation-life has no meaning, there is no feeling of being in life. An exaggerated state can develop into complete lameness. Quite young people give the impression of having the resignation of a bitter old man or woman. When you dig into such a black mood you find that behind it there is overwhelming greed-for being loved, for being very rich, for having the right partner, for being the top dog, etc. Behind such a melancholic resignation you will often discover in the darkness a recurring theme which makes things very difficult, namely if you give such people one bit of hope, the lion opens its mouth and you have to withdraw, and then they put the lid on again, and so it goes on, back and forth.”",
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                        "text": "“Philip gave him his hand and he clung to it as to life, for comfort in his extremity. Perhaps he had never really loved anyone in all his days, but now he turned instinctively to a human being. His hand was wet and cold. It grasped Philip’s with feeble, despairing energy. The old man was fighting with the fear of death. And Philip thought that all must go through that. Oh, how monstrous it was, and they could believe in a God that allowed his creatures to suffer such a cruel torture! He had never cared for his uncle, and for two years he had longed every day for his death; but now he could not overcome the compassion that filled his heart. What a price it was to pay for being other than the beasts! They remained in silence broken”",
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                        "text": "“Another sketch-this one of Gabriel-hung on the all above the water cask. It swiveled gently on a single tack; or rather, the paper hung plump with gravity while the whole ship swiveled around it. She’d captured Gabriel’s toothy, inoffensive grin and the devilish gleam in his eye, and the effect of the paper’s constant, subtle rocking was to make the image come alive. Softly, strangely-the portrait of Gabriel was laughing. Gray shook himself. Laughing at him , most likely. “She comes here?” he asked. “Aye. That she does. Every morning.” Gabriel straightened his hunched spine and adopted a cultured tone. “We take tea.” Gray frowned. One more place he’d have to avoid-the galley at morning teatime. “See to it that she eats something. Slip more milk in her tea. Make her treacle duff every day, if she cares for it. Are you giving her a daily ration of lime juice?” Gabriel smiled down at the salt pork. “Yes, sir.” “Double it.” “Yes, sir.” Gabriel’s grin widened. “And stop grinning, damn it.” “Yes, sir.” The old man practically sang the words as he pounded away at the meat. “Never thought I’d live to see the day.”",
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                        "text": "“You come back here, you good-for-nothing! Come help me drag these ailing bones.\" The old man flees toward the Lethe as fast as his rickety legs will carry him. Like an army scouring the countryside, she surges in his wake, flattening grasses and bushes as she goes. The gap narrows. \"Don't you recognize me?\" she hollers. \"It's me, your sweetie pie!”",
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                        "text": "“It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he’s in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It’s bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?” I nodded into his shirt. “Gives you an idea how I feel about you,” he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.”",
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                        "text": "“Albert is my name,” the old man said, offering his hand. Ezra took it carefully, mindful of old bones and thin skin, but Albert’s hand was steady, strong, and as dry and hard as a block of sanded wood. “And Ezra’s mine,” Ezra said. “Say, I’m lookin for someone. Maybe you might have seen him here in the park, sometime or another. He’s an older guy, maybe in his eighties, maybe even older than that. Strange clothes, looks like a costume. Long beard.” Ezra held a hand down at his waist to illustrate. “Long white hair.” Albert smiled. “You mean Owen! You’re looking for Owen?” Ezra nodded. That was way too easy, he thought. “Well let me tell you something, friend,” Albert said, tossing his butt. “You don’t go looking for the old man in the mountain. You can only find him.” “The hell’s that mean?” Ezra said with a grin. “Take it how you want it,” Albert said. “I’ve seen Owen from time to time, but never if I was looking for him. When I was a child, he used to tell stories to the children of the neighborhood. Right over there he did, under that old chestnut tree.” “When YOU were a kid?” Ezra said. “Owen’s older than you think, you see. A lot older. And he is a far traveler. Seen all of the world there is to see, Owen has- and some of it that should not be seen by anyone. But he’s no street person. You won’t find him among the great unwashed over by the war memorial, or in the institutions, or at a shelter. You will not find him at all, in fact-“ “If I’m lookin for him,” Ezra finished.”",
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                        "text": "“It's just that even though I'm totally old and unhip,I remember what boys in high school were like.Especially the kind like Jack Caputo.\" \"What kind is that?\" \"The kind that doesn't even walk a girl to the door.\" I rolled my eyes. \"Well,he would have, but he had to go drop off his other dates. There were three of us.\" My dad finally cracked a smile. \"Good night,old man,\" I said,giving him a hug. \"Wait a sec,honey.Did I do that okay?\" I pulled back. \"Do what okay?\" It hit me then that this was my first dance since my mom died.I felt a little guilty that I hadn't realized it before. It was just that the night was so perfect. Before he could explain, I said, \"Yes.You did great.\" \"Night,Nikki.\" The next morning,I found a note in my jacket pocket.I unfolded it and read two words, written in Jack's handwriting. Ever Yours. ”",
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                        "text": "“The Gospel of Philip takes up the same theme: Jesus took them all by stealth, for he did not reveal himself in the manner [in which] he was, but in the manner in which [they would] be able to see him. He revealed himself to [them all. He revealed himself] to the great as great … (and) to the small as small.69 To the immature disciple, Jesus appears as a child; to the mature, as an old man, symbol of wisdom. As the gnostic teacher Theodotus says, “each person recognizes the Lord in his own way, not all alike.”",
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                        "text": "It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.",
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                        "text": "“But what kind of love is this that is so unaware of itself that it can be hidden until the day of judgement? The answer is obvious. Because love is hidden it cannot be a visible virtue or a habit which can be acquired. Take heed, it says, that you do not exchange true love for an amiable virtuousness, a human \"quality.\" Genuine love is always self-forgetful in the true sense of the word. But if we are to have it, our old man must die with all his virtues and qualities, and this can only be done where the disciple forgets self and clings solely to Christ.”",
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                        "text": "“Look at how beautiful this ink is. Now do you understand why I needed clear water? Water is the brightness of the day and the whiteness of the paper. Black is the velvet of night and the satiny ink of the paintbrush. If you know how to make ink correctly, you will never again be afraid of nightmares.\" Hokusai (The Old Man Mad About Drawing)”",
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                        "text": "“No,\" said the old man, deep under. \"I don't remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War's never a winning things, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don't suppose that's the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on.”",
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                        "text": "“Why don't you use some sense and try to be more like me? You might live to be a hundred and seven, too.\" \"Because it’s better to die on one’s feet than live on one’s knees,” Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty conviction. “I guess you’ve heard that saying before.” “Yes, I certainly have,” mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. “But I’m afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one’s feet than die on one’s knees. That is the way the saying goes.” “Are you sure?” Nately asked with sober confusion. “It seems to make more sense my way.” “No, it makes more sense my way. Ask your friends.”",
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