"This is the period from ages 60 to 90 in which many people have a new sense of freedom, kids grown up, retired from formal work etc., about their possibilities. They can either crown a career, start something new, or launch themselves into a meaningful social enterprise. A phase of life that was once seen as an end can now more accurately be enjoyed as a beginning."

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Tom Butler-Bowdon

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“One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.”
“What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.”

Source : Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.
“Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?”
“For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.”
“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
“Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.”
“The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.”
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”

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