Wednesday, January 14, 2009

On age 50

"You're just the romantic age, Fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly-wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is - oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty."

Pretty Hildegarde to Benjamin Button thinking he is 50 years old - Chapter 5, `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1922


P.S: No, I am not fifty ! , neither F. Scott Fitzgerald was. He died young.

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