"I hated childhood / I hate adulthood /……" — Mary Ruefle
"I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive."
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19 Quotes by Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle has 19 quotes on this site.
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
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The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
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My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among…
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I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty…
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In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time,…
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There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the…
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There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does…
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke…
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If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
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In the end I would rather wonder than know
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Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
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More Adulthood Quotes
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than…
— Margaret Cho
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having…
— Carol Bellamy
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.
— Robert Redford
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Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
— Wes Fesler
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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched…
— Tom Brokaw
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in…
— Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents,…
— Alice Miller
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