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Browsing Quotes With Tag: adulthood (6)

  • Your twenties are all about taking your childhood out on everyone you run into.

    Speaker: Bill Burr
    Source: http://www.billburr.com/podcast
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    Posted: 04 Dec 2013 at 10:39 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: adolescence, adulthood, humor

  • And secondly, a teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of full adulthood, that’s like you thinking that dressing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian. And thirdly, it’s a really weird way of looking at life to want to become an adult by imitating everything that is most catastrophic about adulthood… Where I’m concerned, just seeing my mother shooting up with her anti-depressants and sleeping tablets has been enough to inoculate me for life against that sort of substance abuse. Lastly, teenagers think that they’re adults when in fact they’re imitating adults who never really made it into adulthood and who are running away from life. It’s pathetic.

    Speaker: Muriel Barbery
    Source: the Elegance of the Hedgehog
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    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:54 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: adulthood, aging, sin
    Shared By: 3 members; hnorthsale, oursojeri, Puck

  • We come to maturity with as little preparation fro the pressures of experience as a bookworm asked to do a ballet.

    Speaker: David Seabury
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    Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:51 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: adulthood, aging, education, how-to-stop-worrying-and-start-living, trials

  • I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn’t.

    Speaker: Stephen Chbosky
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    Posted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:36 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: adulthood, aging, childhood, loneliness, memory, perks-of-being-a-wallflower

  • “It’s no wonder we’re all in such a mess, is it? We’re like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and force us to get on with it. And its much worse in real life, because it’s not just snogging and bunk beds, is it? There’s all this as well.”

    Speaker: Nick Hornby
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    Posted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:19 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: adulthood, high-fidelity, life, trials
    Shared By: 2 members; sdressfancy, Puck

  • Is there anything more adult than sticking with a relationship that’s falling apart in the hope that you can put it right? I’ve never done that in my life.

    Speaker: Nick Hornby
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    Posted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:12 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: adulthood, high-fidelity, relationships