"Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people."

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Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

#Inspirational Quotes #People Quotes

“The older you get, the more you have to talk about, and music is a really good outlet. I've chilled on it a little bit, and I can't wait to see what I'm going to step into, now that I have this collection of things.”
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster
“The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.”
“Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.”
“I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.”
“Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.”
“What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?”
“But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated--which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.”

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