Gradually Quote by John le Carré

“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought…

— Andrew Coster

“He had known it often enough. A delightful child, even a delightful early adolescent, interested in everything, alive,affectionate, would turn into a thick, heavy,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can…

— Thomas Harris

“I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he…

— Jodi Picoult

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him,…

— Arabian Nights

“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority…

— wildbow

“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared…

— John Williams

“The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like.”

— David Baldacci

“He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.”

— James Hilton

“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay…

— Gao Xingjian

“There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.”

— Fennel Hudson