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Ursula K. Le Guin
Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters.
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Dan Simmons _ Drood
The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to her the enjoyment he was having in writing this Drood book for serialisation, this upstart of a girl had the temerity to ask, 'But suppose you died before all the book was written?' {...} He spoke very softly in his kindest voice and said to her, 'One can only work on, you know--work while it is day.
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Dan Simmons _ Drood
When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Notebook
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
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Yann Martel _ Beatrice and Virgil
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed
They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
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Ray Bradbury _ Dandelion Wine
It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it's an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, 'How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn't life a play? Don't I play it well?
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Ray Bradbury _ Something Wicked This Way
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
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J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Fellowship of the Ring
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Louisa May Alcott _ Jo's Boys
…that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use.
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Gabriel García Márquez _ One Hundred Years of Solitude
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
Old age had distilled her down to her essence.
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