"Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well...."

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Source : John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

John Mortimer

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