"Keeping up the appearance of having all your……" — Sara Gruen

"Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important."

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77 Quotes by Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am…
I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It…
Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being…
I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical…
So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing…
The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or…
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three…
I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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