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Link	Quote	Tags	Author
3ef3fd9	"Why can't I drink the potion instead?" asked Harry desperately. "Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore."	older potion valuable	J.K. Rowling
9800f48	Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.	beauty faces feature older	Anne Lamott
cc32f74	I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.	dreams love older strength teenagers young	Joyce Carol Oates
7995988	It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.	grown-up grown-ups harder life older simple simple-way simple-way-of-life	Larry McMurtry
b8d526e	'kthr m ykhyfny fy lshykhwkh@ lys lwHd@ , wnm ltb`y@	older	Isabel Allende
79f1f84	Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?	betray betrayal betrayed bursting charm experience frank frankness good goodness ideal ideals important knowledge life old older trivial understand virtue virtuous years young younger	John Fowles
e3afcf1	-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.	bones brain flesh mature maturity mountains older teens wisdom	V.C. Andrews
81417b0	This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.	birthing bomb dark necessary nothing obvious older pain starving suffering terrible torture vain waste wasted world	John Fowles
842b28f	We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.	inspirational john-fowles lazy older	John Fowles
995c992	Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.	choice older	Patricia A. McKillip

3ef3fd9

"Why can't I drink the potion instead?" asked Harry desperately. "Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore."

older potion valuable

J.K. Rowling

9800f48

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

beauty faces feature older

Anne Lamott

cc32f74

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.

dreams love older strength teenagers young

Joyce Carol Oates

7995988

It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.

grown-up grown-ups harder life older simple simple-way simple-way-of-life

Larry McMurtry

b8d526e

'kthr m ykhyfny fy lshykhwkh@ lys lwHd@ , wnm ltb`y@

older

Isabel Allende

79f1f84

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?

betray betrayal betrayed bursting charm experience frank frankness good goodness ideal ideals important knowledge life old older trivial understand virtue virtuous years young younger

John Fowles

e3afcf1

-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

bones brain flesh mature maturity mountains older teens wisdom

V.C. Andrews

81417b0

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.

birthing bomb dark necessary nothing obvious older pain starving suffering terrible torture vain waste wasted world

John Fowles

842b28f

We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.

inspirational john-fowles lazy older

John Fowles

995c992

Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.

choice older

Patricia A. McKillip