I grow more intense as I age.
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I grow more intense as I age.
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
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