"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age."
- Dejan Stojanovic
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- Stephen Richards
"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing h..."
- Donna Tartt
"For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—u..."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age."
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."
"I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die."
- Yasunari Kawabata
"The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them"
- Frank Eberhart