"There were days - she could remember this……" — Elizabeth Strout
"There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure."
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Elizabeth Strout
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52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
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People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is…
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Traits don't change, states of mind do.
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The appetites of the body were private battles.
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The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
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In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To…
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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone.…
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point…
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He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had…
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a…
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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted…
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means…
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with…
— George Washington Carver
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are…
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the…
— John Ciardi
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
— Geronimo
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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