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“At my age, flowers scare me.”

- George Burns
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“At my age, I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual.”

- Patrick Moore
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“A person doesn’t die when he should, but when he can.”

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

- Toni Morrison
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

-Anne Lamott
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“I don’t mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day!”

- George Axelrod
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