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• In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, School, People

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Memories, Past

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.520, Vintage

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• One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.

  Winona LaDuke

  Teaching, White, Differences

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• People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

  Craig Ferguson

  Life, Children, Stupid

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• I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Sitting Still, People

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Thank God, Trying

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Senior, Retirement

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• Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

  Viggo Mortensen

  War, Kids, Iran

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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Crazy, People, Information

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• They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, People, Lame

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• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Two, Years

  "Decoded". Book by Jay-Z, December 7, 2010.

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• Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

  Craig Ferguson

  People, Secret, Luck

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• People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.

  Mark Haddon

  Mean, Smell, People

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• …that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

  Louisa May Alcott

  People, Use, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2005). “Little Women ; Little Men ; Jo's Boys”, p.1003, Library of America

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• When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

  Adam Young

  Eye, Boys, People

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• Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Aging, Young And Old

  "A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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• Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

  David Ogilvy

  Thinking, People, Way

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.19, Profile Books

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• You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

  Hermann Hesse

  Taken, Men, Years

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

  Tom Wolfe

  Years, America, People

  Tom Wolfe (2010). “Hooking Up”, p.1929, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Quoted in Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations (1977)

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• I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Witty, Sex

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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  Andre Maurois

  Birthday, Time, Hunting

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• We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Next Day, People

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• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Retirement, Age, Ears

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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