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“I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.”

People Believe Age Reading Enjoy Consciousness Historical

Author:Erica Jong

“certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.”

People Age Certain Dies Old Age Insane Vulnerability Forty Funeral Old People Confirmation

Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.”

People Dream Age Faces Young Certain Happened Events Beast Familiarity

Book:On Cats

Source: On Cats

“some people always have a touch of youth about them.”

People Age Youth

Book:A Family and a Fortune

Source: A Family and a Fortune

“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.”

“Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.”

People Age

Book:Love in a Cold Climate

Source: Love in a Cold Climate

“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.”

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.”

People Knows Age Old Age Honored

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“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

“Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.”

People Feels Body Age House Party Old Age Manners Good Man Guests Old People Good Manners Disheartened

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

“Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.”

People Feels Age Player Get Better Nfl Super Bowl

Author:Darrelle Revis

“The mind doesn't know anything about age, your subconscious mind knows nothing about time or space. And so, I am hanging around young people all the time and I operate like they do. I don't think of myself as being old.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Age Young Space Subconscious Subconscious Mind Hanging Around Being Old

Author:Bob Proctor

“Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.”

People Thinking Knows Want Problem Age Growth Levels Consciousness What You Want Make You Happy Getting What You Want

Author:Bob Proctor

“I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.”

People Knows Feels Age Stuff

Author:Vanessa Bayer

“the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”

People Thinking Country Hard Seems Happens Age Land Old Age Arriving Being Old

Book:Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women

Source: Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women

“Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.”

People Would Be Age My Own Company Exile Insufferable Demotion

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”

People Ifs Needs Age Enjoy Minutes Solitude Weakness Prejudice Faults Endure Unreal Aloof Gregarious Sociability

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.”

People Age Comedy Unique Mirrors

Book:The Roman Way to Western Civilization

Source: The Roman Way to Western Civilization

“Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.”

People Age Found Refuse Valuable Oil Old Age Metals Old People Scrap Vitamins Scrap Metal

Book:Hungry hearts and other stories

Source: Hungry hearts and other stories

“This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!”

People Men Light Age Passion Fire Higher Hunger

Book:Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience

Source: Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience

“My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.”

People Years Children Age Knowing Wife My Wife Range My Children Impressed Adopted

Author:Kevin Cramer

“Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.”

People Knows Age Today Used Values Differences Materials Productions Used To Be Our Society Raw Materials

Author:Brian Tracy

“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

“The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.”

People Art Shows Light Age Painting Drama Embrace Intellect Architecture Welcome Decoration Handmaids

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.”

People States Age Earth Planets Easier Thousand Hundred Harmony Ancient Purity Sublime Our Planet Living On Auras Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.”

People Made Age Religious Knowing Seeing Son China Old Age Chinese Odor

Book:The Man Who Loved Children

Source: The Man Who Loved Children

“Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.”

People Age Certain Crazy Filters Crazy People

Author:Michaela Watkins

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