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Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fig...

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My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed m...

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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of y...

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Bill BrysonThe Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to...

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Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second ...

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. An...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try agai...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate t...

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The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence...

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