Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time

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Topic

Aging

Speaker

Umfraville

Author

Anthony Powell

Source

A Dance to the Music of Time

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings. Vol. 11, London: Heinemann, 1973, ch. 1.

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It's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on.

Lou Reed

Perfect Day

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Topic
Contentment
Speaker
Lou Reed
Source
Perfect Day Transformer
Medium
Song
Genre
Pop music
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Reed, Lou. "Perfect Day." Transformer. RCA Records, 1972.

Another quote about Aging

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

City Slickers

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Topic
Stages of life Aging Old age
Speaker
Mitch Robbins
Actor
Billy Crystal
Source
City Slickers
Medium
Film
Genre
Comedy (film) Western (film) Comedy Western
Language
English
Time
1991 1990s 20th century
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Citation

City Slickers. Directed by Ron Underwood, Castle Rock Entertainment/Face Productions/Nelson Entertainment, 1991.