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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

~Florida Scott-Maxwell

Topics: Age Eighties Fairly Grow Intense Interesting Me More Passionate Puzzles Quiet Quiet Time Serene Seventies Thought Time Were

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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

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Topics: Accommodate Better Container Destroys Does Else Every Fruition Life Meant Seed Would You

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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

~Florida Scott-Maxwell

Topics: Being Being Yourself Duty Easy Know Our Sacred Sure Trouble Worth Yourself

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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

~Florida Scott-Maxwell

Topics: Alone Black Boil Kitchen Live Old Pleasure Shiny Wait Waltz While Who

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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.

~Florida Scott-Maxwell

Topics: Age Balance Being Brave Crucial Enough Gay Honest Human Human Being Interested Just Keeping Old Old Age Remain Sentient Task Well Well Enough

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

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Topics: Children Her How Improvement Matter Middle-Aged Mother Old She Signs Watches

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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