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Book by Katz, Eliakim
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1 author picked Old Age Comes at a Bad Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s a little book of quotes, the sort of book you could keep in the guest loo (if you don’t mind losing your guests for half an hour), but it is stuffed full of oomph and I’ve carted it with me through three migrations because it has been giving me quotes, when I needed something pithy and to the point, for thirty years. I really hope it is still in print because nobody’s getting their hands on my copy. Relevance to my theme? Picked at random – “the first forty years of life gives us the text, the next thirty…
From E.J.'s list on getting older with style and panache.
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