#ge

She had a wattle and an enormous middle-aged ass that challenged all chairs. ↗

— Junot Diaz

#age

Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #judge #narrator #perfection #puppy-love

The eye sees "Beautiful"; the heart sees "Beauty"... - "Beautiful" is tangible and shallow; it fades with time, age and use. True BEAUTY is ageless. It can never be described; it dwells within. ↗

— LaTonja 3ts-Hamp

#age

A man is not old until regrets replace dreams ↗

— John Barrymore

#dreams #age

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72). ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#getting-older #old-age #age

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume. ↗

— Sean Young

#good #lot #low-budget #movies #people

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#age

It's finished. Everything went past, without me. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#carpe-diem #age

..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will: ↗

— William Wordsworth

#age

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#crime #economics #age