How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

Bill Holm
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  1. Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.

  2. You must sit down to speak this language, It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it. For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

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