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Bill Bryson
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The Lost Continent: Travels in
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.
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Robert Conquest
Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fight
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John Updike
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Rabbit Redux
Just middle-aged. Ideas used to grab me too. It's not that you get better ideas, the old ones just get tired. After a while you see that even dollars and cents are just an idea. Finally the only thing that masters is putting some turds in the toilet bowl once a day. They stay real, somehow. Somebody came up to me and said, 'I'm God,' I'd say, 'Show me your badge.
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John Updike
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Rabbit at Rest
Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.
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