A Quote by J. J. Cale
Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.
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Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle
down eventually? Because you don't want to be the old guy in the club.
You know what I'm talking about. Every club you go into, there's always
some old guy. He ain't really old, just a little too old to be in the
club.
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