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b212398
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I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.
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grown-ups
fighting
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Anne Frank |
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25cb4f0
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grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
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grown-ups
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Nicholas Sparks |
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5f21d6d
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Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked. - In order to forget - replied the drunkard. - To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him. - To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head. - Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him. - Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence. And the little prince went away, puzzled. 'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey.
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grown-ups
problem-solving
self-respect
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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3da2b77
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It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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grown-ups
children
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Enid Blyton |
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6c16960
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Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you're a grown-up, you'll understand. Jonah: I don't want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
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complicating-matters
grown-ups
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Nicholas Sparks |
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7995988
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It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.
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life
harder
simple-way
simple-way-of-life
older
grown-ups
grown-up
simple
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Larry McMurtry |
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b4bd8d0
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In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there's barely even any time for being a toddler. The children simply don't have any time in which they might be children........Indeed... there's simply no way that we would be able to provide our children with a viable childhood, one that is real. Naturally, there are consequences. There's a certain ever present, not to be liquidated childishness that permeates our folk; We often act in ways that are totally and utterly ridiculous and, indeed, precisely like children we do things that are crazy, letting loose with our assets in a manner that is bereft of all rationality, prodigious in our celebrations, partaking in a light-headed frivolousness that is divorced from all sensibility, and often enough all simply for the sake of some small token of fun, so much do we love having our small amusements. But our folk isn't only childish, to a certain extent we also age prematurely, childhood and old age mix themselves differently with us than by others. We don't have any youth, we jump right away into maturity and, then, we remain grown-ups for too long and as a consequence to this there's a broad shadow of a certain tiredness and a sort of hopelessness that colours our essential nature, a nature that as a whole is otherwise so tenacious and permeated by hope, strong hope. This, no doubt, this is related to why we're so disinclined toward music--we're too old for music, so much excitement, so much passion doesn't sit well with our heaviness;
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grown-ups
maturity
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Franz Kafka |
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eb25f50
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She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
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beauty
child-s-mind
imperative
ursula-monkton
grown-ups
grown-up
child
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Neil Gaiman |
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0c3faa7
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When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.
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grown
grown-ups
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Larry McMurtry |