"He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose."
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"He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him."
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"Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face."
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"No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?"
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"Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth."
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"The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it."
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"One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?"
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"The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think."
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"Sunblock! I don't like to tan my face because it's bad for wrinkles."
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"My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it."
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"My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind."
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"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."
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"That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow."
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"Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!"
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"O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away."
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"[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment."
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"Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting."
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"And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter."
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