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Mark Helprin

“Do you know why you walk slowly when you’re old?” “No.” “Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you have, the more you suffer, the more you feel, the more you observe, and the more slowly time moves even as it races ahead.” “I don’t understand.” “You will.”

Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
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A Soldier of the Great War A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
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