"But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult."
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"Adult males are what their moms designed them."
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"Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW."
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"A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness."
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"To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote"
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"Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it."
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"I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults."
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"If children could, if adults knew."
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"The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion."
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"I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong."
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"Adults are the real monsters."
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"Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up"
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"Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear."
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"I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't."
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"Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child."
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"If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business"
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"A lot of adults are very into Halloween."
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"The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me."
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"I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults."
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"It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult."
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