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> [“I know very few people who have grown all the way up. The best most of us can do is manage intermittent maturity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/i-know-very-few-people-who-have-grown-all-the-way-up-the-best-most-of/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

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## More by Daniel Menaker

> [“On our flight back from Arizona where we adopted our daughter three years after our ungreen one-headed son a stewardess ... paused to to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/on-our-flight-back-from-arizona-where-we-adopted-our-daughter-three/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [“How much did I miss, out of haste, intensity, and anger? How much would I come to wish that I had learned about a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/how-much-did-i-miss-out-of-haste-intensity-and-anger-how-much-would-i/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [“Not seeking acknowledgment for things done well but finding satisfaction in doing them well.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/not-seeking-acknowledgment-for-things-done-well-but-finding/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [“Do you want justice--do you want to SHOW THEM--or do you want to achieve your goal? ... In business, for people who want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/do-you-want-justice-do-you-want-to-show-them-or-do-you-want-to/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [“I know very few people who have grown all the way up. The best most of us can do is manage intermittent maturity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/i-know-very-few-people-who-have-grown-all-the-way-up-the-best-most-of/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [“His main example was to read like a child--very curiously and carefully ... But with the full intellectual sophistication of a brilliant adult.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/his-main-example-was-to-read-like-a-child-very-curiously-and/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [“Publishing, I learn later, is a little like the garment industry: You have to be geographically well placed, in New York, for schmoozing convenience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/publishing-i-learn-later-is-a-little-like-the-garment-industry-you/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [ “\[He\] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/he-embodies-this-tension-between-civilization-and-its-discontents/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

> [“God--if by God the agnostic means precision, clarity, genuine feeling, accuracy--is in the details only when the writer (or speaker, for that matter) knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-menaker/god-if-by-god-the-agnostic-means-precision-clarity-genuine-feeling/)

[Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-menaker/)

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