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"Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Every time you learn a fact, you lose a childhood dream." (Luming Hao) "Grow graceful, growing old." (Anonymous) "I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort." (Zach Galifianakis, American comedian and actor) "I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something." (Johnny Depp) "I'm really appalled by plastic surgery in this country. We've got to make friends with those sags and wrinkles, as they represent our lifetime experience." (Jane Fonda) "I've lived a number of lives. I'm inclined to envy the man who leads one life, with one job, and one wife, in one country, under one God. It may not be a very exciting existence, but at least by the time he's seventy-three he knows how old he is." (John Huston, American filmmaker) "It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it." (W. Somerset Maugham) "No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year." (Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright) "The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo, into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old." (Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island) |
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