The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for...

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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't...

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't...

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No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of...

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but...

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but...

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of...

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of...