“I am like you in my boyish rejection of elderliness. Antiquity—why not come right out with it? You pack a snowball on a winter day and imagine taking a belly flop on your sled as we all used to do back in the beautiful Twenties—I was ten years old in 1925. All that remains is the freshness of the impulse.”
Saul Bellow
more infosource: letter to Albert Glotzer, dated April 19, 1996, in Saul Bellow: Letters (New York: Viking, 2010), 518.
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category: aging, elderly, memory
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“The young are born to the human condition more than to their time, and they face mainly the same trials and obligations as their elders have faced.”
Wendell Berry
more infosource: “Family Work,” in The Gift of Good Land (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 1981), 160.
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