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Karla Clark

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“The good thing about being old is not being young.”
― Stephen Richards

tags: age, ageism, old, old-age, old-aged, old-people, retired, retiring, stephen-richards, stephen-richards-self-help

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“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”
― Nicole Krauss, Great House

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“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …”
― Samuel Butler

tags: consistency, contradiction, hypocrisy, indifference

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“I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.”
― Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

tags: age, old, portia-de-rossi, reality, unbearable-lightness

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