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"The Old Devils" Quotes
"The Old Devils" by Kingsley Amis is a novel about a group of aging Welsh friends whose lives are disrupted when a former acquaintance returns to their town.
Quotes
There was a kind of comfort in the thought that nothing was ever going to happen.
His life was like a television turned on but with nobody watching.
There are times when it is best to be alone with the past.
The world outside was a place he had long since ceased to find interesting.
Every day was the same, but that was all right.
He had learned to live with disappointment.
Memory was a kind of home, and he was a lifelong tenant.
Sometimes the best conversations were the ones never spoken.
The past had a way of clinging on, like a stubborn stain.
Growing old was like a long, slow dance with inevitability.
