Then Treece realized a remarkable thing. He understood in a flash that everyone in the world was the same age -no one younger or older than anyone else. He could not understand it, but he knew it to b...
...A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder th...
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
What editors are obliged to appear to say that want from women is actually what their want from women.
We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it. Femaleness and i...
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he...
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?
Beauty and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be beautiful to be sexual. That of c...
The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.
Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging
She may resent because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if beautiful, her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate an...
With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diade...
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.
Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...
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