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- I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step…
- Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off…
- Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which…
- Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash