"The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is……" — William Maxwell

"The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters"

— William Maxwell

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