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title: "Inspiring Old man Proverbs"
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> [“Most people's reality is an illusion, a great big illusion. You automatically have to succumb to the illusion that 'I am this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-harrison/most-people-s-reality-is-an-illusion-a-great-big-illusion-you/)

[George Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-harrison/)

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> [I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-m-writing-this-in-part-to-tell-you-that-if-you-ever-wonder-what-you/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/what-else-she-is-so-beautiful-you-don-t-get-tired-of-looking-at-her-2/)

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

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> [“Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-winman/do-i-believe-in-an-old-man-in-the-clouds-with-a-white-beard-judging/)

[Sarah Winman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-winman/)

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> [ In fact, \[Bernard Leach\] was several generations removed from us. At that time we were there, I think Alix \[MacKenzie\] and I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/in-fact-bernard-leach-was-several-generations-removed-from-us-at-that/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

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> [“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-romantic-journey-was-usually-a-solitary-one-although-the-romantic/)

[Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/)

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> [I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-burt/i-m-an-old-man-and-i-want-to-lay-out-what-i-think-i-understand-with/)

[Dan Burt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-burt/)

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> [“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-linge/the-man-who-had-asked-my-name-in-obersalzberg-in-the-summer-of-1934/)

[Heinz Linge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-linge/)

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> [“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. That afternoon, back home again without the cat and without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/i-always-had-understood-that-dying-of-love-was-mere-poetic-license/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/yet-when-we-achieved-and-the-new-world-dawned-the-old-men-came-out/)

[T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/)

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> [The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-g-quinnett/the-purpose-of-a-fishing-trip-is-not-to-catch-fish-bringing-home-meat/)

[Paul G. Quinnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-g-quinnett/)

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> [“The closer he got to the realization of his dream, the more difficult things became. It seems as what the old man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-closer-he-got-to-the-realization-of-his-dream-the-more-difficult/)

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

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> [“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-dean/before-you-either-turn-away-in-disgust-or-wink-knowingly-at-one/)

[Debra Dean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-dean/)

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> [“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-crews/the-real-artist-with-no-tear-in-his-eye-and-no-sadness-in-his-heart/)

[Harry Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-crews/)

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> [When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-banks/when-an-old-man-and-a-young-man-work-together-it-can-make-an-ugly/)

[Russell Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-banks/)

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> [“I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hunter-s-thompson/i-bought-a-small-bottle-of-beer-for-fifteen-cents-and-sat-on-a-bench/)

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

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> [“The diamond doors flew open. I blinked in disbelief at the transformation within. The tent was no longer of silk but flesh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/the-diamond-doors-flew-open-i-blinked-in-disbelief-at-the/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-paley/here-i-am-in-the-garden-laughing-an-old-woman-with-heavy-breasts-and/)

[Grace Paley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-paley/)

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> [“And just what sort of gentlemen do you imagine now will be paying me court? ... I see ... In other words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/connie-brockway/and-just-what-sort-of-gentlemen-do-you-imagine-now-will-be-paying-me/)

[Connie Brockway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/connie-brockway/)

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> [“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penina-mezei/according-to-folk-belief-that-is-reflected-in-the-stories-and-poems-a/)

[Penina Mezei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penina-mezei/)

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> [And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-have-i-not-told-you-that-what-you-mistake-for-madness-is-but-over/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [“We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-write-these-words-now-many-miles-distant-from-the-spot-at-which/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [“When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/when-he-looked-back-at-the-menu-as-an-old-man-it-brought-back/)

[Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/)

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> [“Megan resumes darting her eyes back and forth between me and my sperm donor. “So,” she says after several seconds pass in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurelin-paige/megan-resumes-darting-her-eyes-back-and-forth-between-me-and-my-sperm/)

[Laurelin Paige](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurelin-paige/)

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> [“I will always remember my first wave this morning. The smells of paraffin wax and brine and peppy scrub. The way the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-winton/i-will-always-remember-my-first-wave-this-morning-the-smells-of/)

[Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-winton/)

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> [“They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the café and looked at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/they-sat-together-at-a-table-that-was-close-against-the-wall-near-the/)

[Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/)

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> [“We’re not the Furies,” I said. “We just want to talk.” “Go away!” he shrieked. “Flowers won’t make it better. It’s too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/we-re-not-the-furies-i-said-we-just-want-to-talk-go-away-he-shrieked/)

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

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> [“Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/emile-was-a-journalist-who-had-acquired-more-reputation-by-doing/)

[Honoré de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [“9. Abraham’s death (25:1 – 11) After Sarah’s death, Abraham took another wife, Keturah. Abraham was a rejuvenated old man and continued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-h-sailhamer/9-abraham-s-death-25-1-11-after-sarah-s-death-abraham-took-another/)

[John H. Sailhamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-h-sailhamer/)

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> [“Most of the shows I do are held at the local playhouses,” Wade explains as he reaches up to take an old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karyn-bosnak/most-of-the-shows-i-do-are-held-at-the-local-playhouses-wade-explains/)

[Karyn Bosnak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karyn-bosnak/)

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> [Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man' ... But Patrick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-gerrard/years-ago-i-sang-on-a-track-using-that-voice-and-someone-asked-who-is/)

[Lisa Gerrard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-gerrard/)

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> [“You are surprised that the world is losing its grip, that the world is grown old? Think of a man: he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustine-of-hippo/you-are-surprised-that-the-world-is-losing-its-grip-that-the-world-is-2/)

[Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustine-of-hippo/)

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> [“He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-de-maupassant/he-had-never-regarded-other-men-as-anything-but-puppets-of-a-sort/)

[Guy de Maupassant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-de-maupassant/)

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> [My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linwood-barclay/my-biggest-complaint-about-drivers-out-in-the-country-has-tended-to/)

[Linwood Barclay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linwood-barclay/)

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> [Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kornfield/look-at-every-path-closely-and-deliberately-try-it-as-many-times-as/)

[Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kornfield/)

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> [All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/all-the-people-of-all-the-nations-which-had-fought-in-the-first-world/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [“You call me castoff,” Mahlia said, “Chinese throwaway, whatever.” Amaya was trying to look away, but Mahlia had her pinned, kept her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paolo-bacigalupi/you-call-me-castoff-mahlia-said-chinese-throwaway-whatever-amaya-was/)

[Paolo Bacigalupi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paolo-bacigalupi/)

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> [When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-de-la-pena/when-i-m-following-what-a-character-does-in-a-book-i-don-t-have-to/)

[Matt de la Pena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-de-la-pena/)

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> [I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-dunnery/i-haven-t-written-on-piano-since-it-bites-you-can-tell-my-songs-that/)

[Francis Dunnery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-dunnery/)

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> [“As in past years, the self-absorbed Jesse Root Grant and equally self-absorbed Colonel Dent continued to find each other insufferable and Grant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-chernow/as-in-past-years-the-self-absorbed-jesse-root-grant-and-equally-self/)

[Ron Chernow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-chernow/)

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                        "text": "“Most people's reality is an illusion, a great big illusion. You automatically have to succumb to the illusion that 'I am this body'. I am not George. I am not really George. I am this living thing that goes on, always has been, always will be, but at this time I happen to be in 'this' body. The body has changed; was a baby, was a young man, will soon be an old man, and I'll be dead. The physical body will pass but this bit in the middle, that's the only reality. All the rest is the illusion, so to say that somebody thinks we are, the ex- Beatles are removed from reality in their personal concept. It does not have any truth to it just because somebody thinks it. They are the concepts which become layer upon layer of illusion. Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it. Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within. That is the big message”",
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                        "text": "I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.",
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                        "text": "What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.",
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                        "text": "“Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from one to ten? Good Lord no, my sweet Elly, I do not! I would have been cast out from this life years ago with my tatty history. Do I believe in a mystery; the unexplained phenomenon that is life itself? The greater something that illuminates inconsequence in our lives; that gives us something to strive for as well as the humility to brush ourselves down and start all over again? Then yes, I do. It is the source of art, of beauty, of love, and proffers the ultimate goodness to mankind. That to me is God. That to me is life. That is what I believe in.”",
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                        "text": "In fact, [Bernard Leach] was several generations removed from us. At that time we were there, I think Alix [MacKenzie] and I were 26 and 28, and Leach was about 63, and we thought he was a very old man. I used to always want to help him up the stairs in the house for fear he'd fall. Actually, he was in excellent condition and lived to be much, much older than we ever expected.",
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                        "text": "“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in their work, they each had a strong individual vision. Romantic poets could not continue their quests for long or sustain their vision into later life. The power of the imagination and of inspiration did not last. Whereas earlier poets had patrons who financed their writing, the tradition of patronage was not extensive in the Romantic period and poets often lacked financial and other support. Keats, Shelley and Byron all died in solitary exile from England at a young age, their work left incomplete, non-conformists to the end. This coincides with the characteristic Romantic images of the solitary heroic individual, the spiritual outcast 'alone, alone, all, all alone' like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and John Clare's 'I'; like Shelley's Alastor, Keats's Endymion, or Byron's Manfred, who reached beyond the normal social codes and normal human limits so that 'his aspirations/Have been beyond the dwellers of the earth'. Wordsworth, who lived to be an old man, wrote poems throughout his life in which his poetic vision is stimulated by a single figure or object set against a natural background. Even his projected final masterpiece was entitled The Recluse. The solitary journey of the Romantic poet was taken up by many Victorian and twentieth-century poets, becoming almost an emblem of the individual's search for identity in an ever more confused and confusing world.”",
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                        "text": "I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like \"Traitor,\" I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.",
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                        "text": "“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding charisma to which few were not prey. The embodied sovereign power, total power. The man whom I burnt and interred under a hail of Red Army shells near the Reich Chancellery was a trembling old man, a spent force, feeble, a failure. Like the Reich which he had aimed to bring into an era of unparalleled brilliance and opulence and had become a heap of rubble, he was the disfigured embodiment of his earlier self.”",
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                        "text": "“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. That afternoon, back home again without the cat and without her, I proved that it was not only possible but that I myself, an old man without anyone, was dying of love. But I also realized that the contrary was true as well: I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. I had spent more than fifteen years trying to translate the poems of Leopardi, and only on that afternoon did I have a profound sense of them: Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”",
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                        "text": "Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.",
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                        "text": "The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women.",
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                        "text": "“The closer he got to the realization of his dream, the more difficult things became. It seems as what the old man had called beginner's luck was no longer functioning. In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively he would fail to see signs and omens left by God along his path.”",
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                        "text": "“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this is a picture about love. Filial love. The old man has been condemned by the Roman senate to die of hunger, and his daughter has come to his prison cell and offered her breast to feed him. This has nothing to do with with the decorous love or amorous passions one is more accustomed to seeing in a painting. It is raw and wretched and demeaning. In the end, we are physical bodies and every abstract notion about love sinks beneath this fact.”",
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                        "text": "“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and does it again!\" \"All art is a metaphor it's by telling you one thing when your mean something else. The Old Man in the Sea is not about fishing!\" \"Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it’s done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.”",
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                        "text": "“I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old man. The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories - not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back.”",
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                        "text": "“The diamond doors flew open. I blinked in disbelief at the transformation within. The tent was no longer of silk but flesh (speckled and pink with spoiled blood); the feast was not a feast, but, rather, on long tables inside, numerous human forms were stretched out, in various stages of flaying; the host was no king, no Christ, but a beast, bloody-handed and long-fanged, wearing a sulfur-colored robe, bits of innards speckling it. Visible therein were three women and a bent-backed old man, bearing long ropes of (their own) intestines (terrible!), but most terrible of all was the way they screeched with joy as my funeral-suited friend was dragged in among them, and the way that poor fellow kept smiling, as if attempting to ingratiate himself with his captors, listing the many charitable things he had done back in Pennsylvania, and the numerous good people who would vouch for him, especially in the vicinity of Wilkes-Barre, if only they might be summoned, even as he was wrestled over to the flaying table by several escort-beings apparently constituted entirely of fire, such that, when they grabbed him (their searing touch instantaneously burning away his funeral suit), his pain was so great that he could no longer struggle or move at all, except his head turned briefly in my direction, and his eyes (horror-filled) met mine.”",
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                        "text": "Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.",
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                        "text": "“And just what sort of gentlemen do you imagine now will be paying me court? ... I see ... In other words, social climbers who will not care that I am desperate or old men as desperate as I ... I refuse to marry a mushroom for the manure from which he's sprung. Nor shall I marry an old man to be his broodmare.”",
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                        "text": "“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive. In fairy tales, the blind destructiveness of demonic beings can, through humanization psychological demons, transformed into affection and love of the water and freeing petrified beings. In the fairy tale \" The Three Sisters \" Mezei de-stone petrified people when the hero , which she liked it , obtain them free . In the second story , the hero finding fairy , be petrified to the knee , but since Fairy wish to marry him , she kissed him and freed . When entering a demonic time and space hero can be saved if it behaves in a manner that protects it from the effects of demonic forces . And the tales of fortune Council hero to not turn around and near the terrifying challenges that will find him in the demon area . These recommendations can be tracked ancient prohibited acts in magical behavior . In one short story Penina ( evil mother in law ) , an old man , with demonic qualities , sheds , first of two brothers and their sister who then asks them , iron Balot the place where it should be zero as chorus, which sings wood and green water . When the ball hits the ground resulting clamor and tumult of a thousand voices, but no one sees - the brothers turned , despite warnings that it should not , and was petrified . The old man has contradictory properties assistants and demons . Warning of an old man in a related one variant is more developed - the old man tells the hero to be the place where the ball falls to the reputation of stones and hear thousands of voices around him to cry Get him, go kill him, swang with his sword , stick go ! . The young man did not listen to warnings that reveals the danger : the body does not stones , during the site heroes - like you, and was petrified . The initiation rite in which the suffering of a binding part of the ritual of testing allows the understanding of the magical essence of the prohibition looking back . MAGICAL logic respectful direction of movement is particularly strong in relation to the conduct of the world of demons and the dead . From hero - boys are required to be deaf to the daunting threats of death and temporarily overcome evil by not allowing him to touch his terrible content . The temptation in the case of the two brothers shows failed , while the third attempt brothers usually releases the youngest brother or sister . In fairy tales elements of a rite of passage blended with elements of Remembrance lapot . Silence is one way of preventing the evil demon in a series of ritual acts , thoughts Penina Mezei . Violation of the prohibition of speech allows the communication of man with a demon , and abolishes protection from him . In fairy tales , this ritual obligations lost connection with specific rituals and turned into a motive of testing . The duration of the ban is extended in the spirit of poetic genre in years . Dvanadestorica brothers , to twelve for saving haunted girls , silent for almost seven years, but eleven does not take an oath and petrified ; twelfth brother died three times , defeat the dragon , throw an egg at a crystal mountain , and save the brothers ( Penina Mezei : 115 ) . Petrify in fairy tales is not necessarily caused by fear , or impatience uneducated hero . Self-sacrificing hero resolves accident of his friend's seemingly irrational moves, but he knows that he will be petrified if it is to warn them in advance , he avoids talking . As his friend persuaded him to explain his actions , he is petrified ( Penina Mezei : 129 ) . Petrified friends can save only the blood of a child , and his \" borrower \" Strikes sacrifice their own child and revives his rescuers . A child is a sacrificial object that provides its innocence and purity of the sacrificial gift of power that allows the return of the forces of life.”",
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                        "text": "And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.",
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                        "text": "“We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a merry and joyous circle. Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then, have ceased to beat; many of the looks that shone so brightly then, have ceased to glow; the hands we grasped, have grown cold; the eyes we sought, have hid their lustre in the grave; and yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces, the jest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstances connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday! Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!”",
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                        "text": "“Megan resumes darting her eyes back and forth between me and my sperm donor. “So,” she says after several seconds pass in silence. “Is someone going to fill me in?” “There’s nothing to fill,” I say, then blush because I’m a bad liar and because Chase has been filling me quite well. Apparently, he’s also turned me into a pervert. Megan narrows her eyes. “Are the two of you…?” “No!” Chase and I say at once. Like that’s not obvious. “I’m helping Pop with his computer,” I say in a rush, eager to make this situation seem anything other than what it is. Though, at this point, I’m not sure what it is. This morning’s activities have had nothing at all to do with our contractual agreement. “Ah. I see.” Megan doesn’t seem convinced, but she turns to her grandfather anyway, and says, “I told you Phil would help you with that, Pop.” “She’s nicer than Phil,” Pop says, nodding in my direction. “She’s prettier than him, too.” He winks as though he knows he’s part of a cover-up. And because I’ve completely fallen for this old man, I wink back.”",
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                        "text": "“You are surprised that the world is losing its grip, that the world is grown old? Think of a man: he is born, he grows up, he becomes old. Old age has its many complaints: coughing, shaking, failing eyesight, anxious, terribly tired. A man grows old; he is full of complaints. The world is old; it is full of pressing tribulations. . . . Do not hold onto the old man, the world; do not refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you, ‘The world is passing away, the world is losing its grip, the world is short of breath. Do not fear. Thy youth shall be renewed as an eagle”",
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                        "text": "My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.",
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                        "text": "Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.",
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                        "text": "All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.",
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                        "text": "“You call me castoff,” Mahlia said, “Chinese throwaway, whatever.” Amaya was trying to look away, but Mahlia had her pinned, kept her eye to eye. “My old man might have been peacekeeper, but my mom was pure Drowned Cities. You want to war like that, I’m all in.” Mahlia lifted the scarred stump of her right hand, shoved it up in Amaya’s face. “Maybe I cut you the way the Army of God cut me. See how you do with just a lucky left. How’d you like that?”",
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                        "text": "When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.",
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