"If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were."
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"Now, the old man happened to be the Lord."
"Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men."
"Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]"
"An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore."
"Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him."
"I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!"
"She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth."
"Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die."