"I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me."

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Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.22, Macmillan

John Scalzi

#Mind Quotes #Young Quotes #Getting Old Quotes

“The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.”
“My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.”
“You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.”
“But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.”
“We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.”
“Awakening into love is a lifelong path.”
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”

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