"Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire……" — Jonathan Tropper
"Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything."
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60 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper
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We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to…
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We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living…
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There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no…
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That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
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At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
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I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took…
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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being…
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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and…
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But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see…
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You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all…
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And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties,…
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More Childhood Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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