Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
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“The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
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I spent much of my adult life focusing on my career and I take pride in my achievements in my field. — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
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I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you,… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
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I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Oh God, I'm missing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“I turned around and there he was, Edward Curtis Baldwin. My best friend's father. My Sweet Pea's Papa. And my heart's true… — Trice Hickman Copy Share Image
The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
“peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“If your metric for the value “success by worldly standards” is “Buy a house and a nice car,” and you spend twenty… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“[A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“The one image I eventually found of Alexis St. Martin as a whole young man is in a painting by Dean Cornwell… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“But what slayed Robert was that for all these years, all his adult life, he'd never believed in relationships and commitment. They… — M.L. Rhodes Copy Share Image
“I was in a fast-food restaurant for the first time in my adult life, an enormous and garish place just around the… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“My mouth went dry, my heart clattered. "Nick, don't leave. Don't go," I said unevenly. "Look, it's not that I'm not, you… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“I’m going to sleep now,” she said in a strangled voice. “ Alone, ” she added, and his face whitened as if… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“You give a lot of great advice about what to do. Do you have any advice of what not to do? Don’t… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend… — Ryan O'Connell Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe and give in to my naiveté, I would like to embrace the fact that I am back… — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
“The human brain is the most complex entity in the universe. It has between fifty and one hundred billion nerve cells, or… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
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“The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?!… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.” — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
“thin man with short gray hair, he’d worn a bow tie and a long-sleeved shirt every day of his adult life. He… — Timothy M. Burke Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting - no wonder you've been fighting ISIS… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image