Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Age
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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
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Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
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In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
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Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
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