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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Aging

"Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
Aging

"I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later."

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Geoff Dyer Author
Aging

"I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it."

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Aging

"Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Aging

"Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it."

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