• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Joyce Carol Oates
  American writer 1938-
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. thinking
2. actually
3. wrinkles
4. trivial
5. losing
6. people

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. by : Joyce Carol Oates

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