"I always looked forward to being an adult,……" — Peter Cameron
"I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood."
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30 Quotes by Peter Cameron
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I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that…
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What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what…
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Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the…
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The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between…
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People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they…
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Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking…
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I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this…
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Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons…
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I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts,…
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I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not…
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One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.
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New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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