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> [How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/how-many-young-men-in-all-previous-times-of-unprecedented-steadiness/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/it-was-inconceivable-to-me-as-a-child-that-i-would-be-an-adult-i-mean/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

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> [“He would have liked to call the man he had been a stranger now, but the world had a way of spinning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/he-would-have-liked-to-call-the-man-he-had-been-a-stranger-now-but/)

[Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-erikson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/steven-erikson-588_stranger_he-would-have-liked-to-call-the-man-he-h_3059407.jpg)

> [I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-rule/i-was-very-frightened-when-i-turned-forty-i-suddenly-thought-i-ought/)

[Jane Rule](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-rule/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/jane-rule-15333_forty_i-was-very-frightened-when-i-turned-fort_3092090.png)

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