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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies. — John Irving Copy Share Image
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I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old… — Clayton Moore Copy Share Image
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Jessica stopped beside him: ‘What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.’ He spoke mechanically: ‘If only adults could relax like… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
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Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image