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- The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary…
- Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child
- Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
- I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying…
- We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
- We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by…
- They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man…
- It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times…
- I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given…
- The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to…
- Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between…
- Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping…
- I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter,…
- I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.
- When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong