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In my case,
adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a
useful waymark.
-- Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author
The
distinction between children and adults, while probably
useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I
feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
-- Don Barthelme
1931-1989, American Actor
What is an
adult? A child blown up by age.
-- Simone De Beauvoir
1908-1986, French Novelist,
Essayist
Men are but
children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change
as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
-- John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet,
Dramatist, Critic
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We have not
passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood
until we move from the passive voice to the active voice --
that is, until we have stopped saying ''It got lost,'' and
say, ''I lost it.''
-- Sidney J. Harris
1917-, American Journalist
A boy becomes
an adult three years before his parents think he does, and
about two years after he thinks he does.
-- Lewis B Hershey
I believe a
man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of
himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things
are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some
people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are
born again on entering manhood; then they are born to
humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the
never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the
terrible multitudes of brothers.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author
In youth the
human body drew me and was the object of my secret and
natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me
that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.
Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the
steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
-- Haniel Long
1888-1956, American Author,
Poet, Journalist
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