The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Quote by Leon Edel

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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into...

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into...

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into...

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into...

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler...

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler...

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on...

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on...

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler...

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler...

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on...

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on...

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead...

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead...

In this busy age of fear and anxiety, the remembrance of God and repetition of...

In this busy age of fear and anxiety, the remembrance of God and repetition of...

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it...

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it...

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot...

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot...

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one...

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one...

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live,...

In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live,...

Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past...

Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past...

I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he...

I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he...

Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee.

Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

When I was your age, television was called books.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.