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I turned sixty-five this year and I take old age seriously. There's work to be done.

— Pat Conroy The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son (2013)

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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

The Lords of Discipline (1980)

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

The Prince of Tides (1986)

The South of humanity and goodness is slowly rising out of the fallen temple of hatred and white man's nationalism.

The Water is Wide (1972)

My passion for eating springs from a childhood not deprived of food but deprived of good food.

Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name.

The Water is Wide (1972)

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And one man in his time plays many parts.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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