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“I was a good kid, but I've had one Achilles' heel that's stayed with me through the years: talking. I simply could not shut…

— Andy Cohen

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they…

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school…

— Ruta Sepetys

“I never felt that I was good enough, strong enough, smart enough. He let me know that there was always room for improvement. A…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.”

— Larry McMurtry

“I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t. But it…

— Anonymous

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“Fun. Wasn't that really the beauty of childhood? That you measured experiences by how much fun they were, not by how much work or…

— Katherine Heiny