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  1. John Fowles _ Daniel Martin

    We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.
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  2. John Fowles _ The Collector

    This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing.All in vain. All wasted.The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker.More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.
    book-quotesufferingworldpain

  3. John Fowles _ The Collector

    Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm {if there is any} for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?
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  4. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the

    Why can't I drink the potion instead?" asked Harry desperately."Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore.
    book-quoteolderpotionvaluable

  5. Isabel Allende _ La suma de los días

    أكثر ما يخيفني في الشيخوخة ليس الوحدة ، وإنما التبعية
    book-quoteolder

  6. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    -just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.
    book-quotematuritymountainswisdom

  7. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.
    book-quotechoiceolder

  8. Anne Lamott _ Grace (Eventually): Thoughts

    Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.
    book-quotebeautyolderfaces

  9. Joyce Carol Oates _ I'll Take You There

    I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.
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  10. Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove

    It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.
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