Posted on: 16 April, 2021
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Sue Townsend
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George Mole 41

Sunday January 10^th

First after Epiphany

I can’t understand why my father looks so old at forty-one compared to President Reagan at seventy. My father has got no work or worries yet he looks dead haggard. Poor President Reagan has to carry the world’s safety on his shoulders yet he is always smiling and looking cheerful. It doesn’t make sense.

Sue Townsend · The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

41

Henry Sugar

'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar'

Roald Dahl

"Henry Sugar was forty-one years old and unmarried. He was also wealthy..."

41

Peter Doyle

Miss Lonelyhearts

Nathanael West

"I am a cripple 41 yrs of age which I have been all my life and I have never let myself get blue until lately..."

41

Martin Lynch-Gibbon

A Severed Head

Iris Murdoch

"...my age is forty-one, and a feel myself at times, after a manner which is not without its curious melancholy charms, to be an old man..."

41

Willie Chandran

Half a Life

V.S. Naipaul

"I am forty-one, in middle life..."

41

Billy Pilgrim

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Kurt Vonnegut

"He was forty-one years old, and he was visiting his decrepit mother at Pine Knoll, an old people's home he had put her in only a month before."