O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult..then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear....
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Peter David
I am convinced that most people do not grow up... We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally...
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Maya Angelou
I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the...
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Paul Auster
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
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Simon Van Booy
Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups..' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Outside, they're big and thoughtless and...
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Neil Gaiman
More Quotes By Leo Rosten
The purpose of life is not to be happy–but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
