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- Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, 1970
- The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
- Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
- It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
- Keri Hulme, The Bone People, 1983
- We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
- Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
- Paulette Bates Alden, 'Legacies,' Feeding the Eagles, 1988
- Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
- Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
- Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954
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