Raymond Chandler on how to not grow old

    Raymond Chandler’s idea for not growing old is to throw yourself into creative work:

Retiring is a kind of dying. The best way to revive is certainly what you have in mind. Work like hell at something just a little creative. No man grows old as long as he can create. You may die in the midst of it – so may I, who am older than you are – but you don’t die of lethargy. (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 194.)
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    For a brief biography of Raymond Chandler, click here.