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As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable. — Doris Lessing
People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less — Sarah Dessen
Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or… — Polly Horvath
Sometimes when you get older — and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and… — Sara Gruen
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit. — Charlaine Harris
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed,… — Virginia Euwer Wolff
But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the… — Nick Hornby
Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel… — John Flanagan
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes… — David Foster Wallace
....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away… — Lisa Lutz
I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not,… — Lauren Oliver
The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural.… — Kate Jacobs
Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something.… — Jennifer Donnelly
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience… — Douglas Coupland
Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins… — Terry Brooks
I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead… — Jeff Lindsay
You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more… — Ann Brashares
But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end… — Lisa Lutz
I think your vision gets better as you get older. — Jennifer Donnelly
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not… — Mindy Kaling
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older. — Joshua Foer
It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even… — Randy Pausch
My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.… — Jeffrey Eugenides

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