"The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis."

-- Leon Edel

#House Quotes #Mind Quotes #Age Quotes

“It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”
“She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.”
“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”
“The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?”
“There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.”
“The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.”
“We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.”
“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”

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