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"You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them."
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"Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried."
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"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
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"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
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"How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?"
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"If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult."
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"It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time."
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"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
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"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."
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"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
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"When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives."
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"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."
Equality
"I always thought of men as being hard-maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn't. I don't know where he'd learned it, but it wasn't something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn't. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn't know which one of us had it worse."
Sensitivity
"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
Talent
"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."
Nostalgia
"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."
Pain
"Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing."
Grief
"Do you think it will always be this way?'What?'I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know, I said. 'Tomorrow."
Youth
"And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?"
Faith
"You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street."
Direction
"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."
Longing
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