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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2013, 02:38 PM Dec 2013

16 Profound Literary Quotes About Getting Older

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexnaidus/profound-quotes-about-getting-older

1. Virginia Woolf

2. C.S. Lewis

3. Oscar Wilde

4. Haruki Murakami

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16 Profound Literary Quotes About Getting Older (Original Post) xchrom Dec 2013 OP

"When you get older, you get colder.... Historic NY Dec 2013 #1

Funny, Wilde died before he was 50, and Wolfe before 60. enough Dec 2013 #2

That is because it is true. RC Dec 2013 #3

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

1. "When you get older, you get colder....

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2013, 03:13 PM

Dec 2013

it prepares you for that dirt nap". Me.

enough

(13,259 posts)

2. Funny, Wilde died before he was 50, and Wolfe before 60.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2013, 03:30 PM

Dec 2013

Now that I'm 70, those ages seem young. Anyway, I enjoyed the link. My favorite quote there is Gertrude Stein's: "We are always the same age inside."

RC

(25,592 posts)

3. That is because it is true.

Reply to enough (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 14, 2013, 05:03 PM

Dec 2013

I had a land lady in her early/mid seventies, who told me she did not feel that old. Now, eons later, that I am getting to be that same age, neither do I.

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