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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
~ Nicholson Baker ~
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
~ Don Barthelme ~
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
~ John Dryden ~
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."
~ Sidney J. Harris ~
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
~ Lewis B Hershey ~
I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
~ D. H. Lawrence ~
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
~ Thomas Szasz ~
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