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Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, s...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults...

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Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small...

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Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding y...

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Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ...

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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing s...

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C. S. LewisOn Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

To be adult is to be alone.