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“A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.”

Want Stories Sea Youth Rivers Fishes Boat Collections Lakes Fishing Short Story Display Courtesy Elderly Trophies Trout

Author:John Cheever

“The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.”

Ifs Situation Cases Fronts Youth Tasks Salvation Refuse Rebel Elderly Mist Vigorous

Book:The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness

Source: The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness

“Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.”

Love Feels Years Littles Age Lasts Youth Productivity Old Age Elderly Suitable Through The Years

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.”

People Way Young Parent Compassion Middle Youth Pride Adults Treats Tenderness Grandparent Elderly Avarice Middle Aged Disillusion Inhumane

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.”

Important Jobs Youth Elderly Important Jobs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

“I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from my right-wing brothers and sisters, even though I'm a progressive. I want to learn something from the elderly, even though I'm middle-aged or tilting toward the elderly. I want to learn especially something from the youth. That's why I spend a lot of time in hip-hop studios.”

Want Christian Middle Youth Brother Wings Hip Hop Studios Hips Hops Progressive Brothers And Sisters Elderly Right Wing Atheistic Middle Aged

Author:Cornel West

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

Long Age Funny Time Youth Ready Tasks Aging Old Age Old People Elders Elderly Youth And Old Age

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.”

Knows Care Community Violence Youth Organization Sick Abuse Jew Bones Protection Welfare Volunteer Elderly Our Community Against Violence

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.”

“Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?”

World Made Eye Cases Saws Youth Grew Made It Excitement Colour Elderly Brighter

Book:England, England

Source: England, England