Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

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• I grow more intense as I age.
• Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.
• Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else…
• Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.
• Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
• The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain…
• Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more…
• The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness,…
• My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old…
• We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times,…
• Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
• I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can…
• Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
• We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.
• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more…
• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

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