George E. Vaillant - Aging Well

Copyright 2002 by George E. Vaillant, M.D.

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The author is grateful for permission to reprint the following excerpts: vignettes of Bill Dimaggio and Eric Carey, from G. E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, copyright 1993 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College); H. Zinsser, As I Remember Him(Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1940); vignette of Mary Fasano from The Harvard Gazette;the Is lines from G. Garrett's translation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonusby University of Pennsylvania Press; the excerpt from The View from Eightyby Malcolm Cowley, copyright 1976, 1978, 1980 by Malcolm Cowley. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.; the 3 lines from W. B. Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium, from The Poems of W.B. Yeats: A New Edition,edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Company, copyright renewed 1956 by George Yeats. Used with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc., and with the permission of A. P. Watt Ltd., London; the 8 lines from R. Humphries' translation of Ovid's Metamorphosesby Indiana University Press, copyright 1963.

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