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Middle Age
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When I was thirty, I lived in the future because the present was intolerable. When I was fifty and sixty, the day of love and work repeated itself year after year. Old age sits in a chair, writing a little and diminishing.
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― Essays After Eighty
― Essays After Eighty
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Middle age isn’t about filling out, but thinning. I’m going to have to find ways of plumping it, like blowing up a tyre.
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― The Younger Woman
― The Younger Woman
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