Quote of the Hour: Sadly True

Anything done more than twice becomes an immemorial tradition, and so it's now time for the twice-yearly run of Quote of the Hour.

I pull too many of these quotes from the books I read to use them up in the normal weekly pace, and so this is how I push them out into the world. See the previous installments from December 31, 2022, and July 2, 2023, and December 321, 2023.

 "Old age. I used to think old age was a kind of feather bed you gradually sank down into, but it's not. It's a goddam stone wall you butt your head into till it cracks."

 - Dawn Powell, The Locusts Have No King, (p. 411 in Novels 1944-1962)