My Seventies Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

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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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It…
• My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is…
• We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our…
• Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

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