Fool me once
Ambition burned white hot when I was young, then I lost it, discouraged, then found it again, then lost it, then found it, now, in old age, thinking myself safe, the old fraud seems to have appeared again.
Bon mots
Over crowded
In old age anecdotes from the past come flooding into my brain, elbowing each other aside, each one eager for attention
Age old wisdom
Let me share some wisdom with you from my advanced old age – things never turn out like you think they are going to.
Justice
Some of my friends die young, all of my enemies live to a well-rewarded, ripe old age, it seems.
Flavour kept
How can Irememberperfectly thewords of aLonnie Donegansong from1958when I haveforgotten so much?
Double trouble
I have two doctorates – when people want to know what’s going on they say “Doctor, doctor, gimme the news”
Old times
Old photos: old family; old friends; old pets; old places; old events; old hopes; old dreams.
Where the living is easy
Biographies give me the comforting feeling that life is arranged in patterns, has structure, can be understood rationally, and will turn out all right in the end.
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