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Middle-aged love is so devastating because this time round, you know exactly what’s at stake! Old-aged love is going to knock your thrombosis socks clean off!

— Diane Awerbuck

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The archaeology of aging is so interesting – what people think they are allowed to do; what they actually can do.

Writing is an aptitude. Sometimes you have more time and inclination for it, and sometimes you have children.

We steal; we hoard; we like the sounds of our own voices.

Novels are the most terrifying of the forms, apart from screenplays (which are basically the haiku of the fiction world, and which is why the good ones are hardly ever written by just one person).

Don’t do it. But also: if you want to, you will.

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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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