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“If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.”

Ifs Children Age Heaven Adults Aging Innocence Inevitable Yearning Cynicism

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.”

Long Facts Age Passion Modern Dying Youth Approach Direct Aging Avoided Obsessive Modern Society Direct Approach

Author:Marya Mannes

“I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.”

Knows Want I Can Age Written Aging Nonsense

Author:Nora Ephron

“I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.”

People Knows Feels Age Differences Aging Crucial Old People

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.”

People Firsts Has Beens Seems Age Process Perfect Talking Too Much Growing Drink Aging Strikes Instance Mechanism Listeners Signals Old People Restless Aging Process Talking Too Much

Author:Barbara Walters

“Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.”

People Ifs Want Writing Persons Book Age Jobs Young Names Mets Aging Yesterday Reaching Someday Marketplace Marble Demographics Zeitgeist

Author:Nora Ephron

“Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.”

Age Too Much Laughter Aging Pleasant Exertion

Author:Thomas Love Peacock

“THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.”

Men Years Running Age Secret Car Aging Fruit Old Man Italian Bus Longevity Rotten Ferrari Plums Fried Food Nectarines

Author:Mel Brooks

“About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!”

Age Good Things Aging Old Age

Author:Stephen Leacock

“There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.”

Firsts Age Written Aging Rate Elderly Humorists

Author:Richard Armour

“Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.”

Age Aging Closing

Author:Edmund Wilson

“There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.”

Giving Age One Thing Aging

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“"Old" is deﬁnitely not cool in America. Never has been.”

Has Beens Age America Aging

Author:Tom Peters

“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”

Age Past Faces Figures Aging Fifty Your Face

Author:Barbara Cartland

“When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.”

Hard Age Used Aging Careful Used To Be Be Careful

Author:Andy Rooney

“Life is long if it is full.”

Ifs Long Age Life Is Aging

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.”

I Can Age Faces Train Aging Sixty Camels Samarkand

Author:Glenda Jackson

“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”

Age Morality Aging Curiosity Pregnancy Withered

Book:A Sort Of Life

Source: A Sort Of Life

“I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.”

Thinking Men Age Past Certain Grows Aging

Book:Whose Body?

Source: Whose Body?

“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”

Children Age Young Force Parent Realizing Loses Natural Mercy Aging Heredity Parent Child

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.”

“People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.”

People Different Country Seems Age Passion Process Exercise Horror Aging Rate California Diets Popularity Surgery Cosmetics Cosmetic Surgery Diet And Exercise

Book:E

Source: E

“What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.”

Done Seems Age Aging

Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

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