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The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep. Loren Eiseley
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible. J. D. Salinger
The skiff swung gently, drifting in the current. He undid his shirt to the waist and put one forearm to his eyes. He could hear the river talking softly beneath him, heavy old river with wrinkled face Cormac McCarthy
Andrew Lang quote: "When the old king saw this he foamed with rage, stared wildly..."
When the old king saw this he foamed with rage, stared wildly about, flung himself on the ground and died. Andrew Lang
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock."
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. Ralph Waldo Emerson
He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled... Ernest Hemingway
By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. I used to write more methodically, but one does not dress for private company as for a public ball. Perhaps 'tis only negligence. Benjamin Franklin
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit..."
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die. Zora Neale Hurston
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets. Barbara Kingsolver
Eventual, as Pug used to say. When he wanted to say something was really good, he's never say it was awesome, like most people do; he'd say it was eventual. How funny is that? The old Pugmeister. I wonder how he's doing. Stephen King
He found on the spot the image of his recent history; he was like one of the figures of the old clock at Berne. THEY came out, on one side, at their hour, jigged along their little course in the public eye, and went in on the other side. He too had jigged his little course--him too a modest retreat awaited. Henry James
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold. J. R. R. Tolkien
through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth Isak Dinesen
...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal. Doug Coupland
In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it. Gordon B. Hinckley

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