“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.” PeopleChildrenCareAgeAmericaParentTakenGrewGrew UpTownsOld AgeProximity Author:Robert Benton
“Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?” MatterStatesCareAgeHouseGivenGrowsHalfTakenYouthOld AgeHealth CareIdleEarningWheatPrudentDiligentDepositsThrifty Author:David Frum
“And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.” PeopleHandsAgeNightTakenWifeSeaRiversFishesOld AgeBoatLakesFishingPondsPromiscuousBridal Author:Ihara Saikaku
“Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.” MenWayKindBigsSeemsAgeTakenAcceptanceCatOld AgeAll KindsIronyIronicBetrayTornSentimentalityResignedBurroughs Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.” TryingAgeForceBehindsTakenWeakOld AgeParts Of LifeBaggage Book:Visitation Source: Visitation