“I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is on the whole preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two. When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers. It is a pleasure to write about what I do.” AgeDeathPleasureDyingOld AgeElderlyDiminishment Book:Essays After Eighty Source: Essays After Eighty
“When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It’s better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.” AgeHappinessDeathDyingDepressionElderly Book:Essays After Eighty Source: Essays After Eighty
“She said that one of the advantages of being ninety was that she could read a detective story again, only two weeks after she first read it, without any notion of which character was the villain.” AgeMysteryMemoryElderly Book:Essays After Eighty Source: Essays After Eighty
