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"One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself."
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"Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends."
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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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"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."
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"No adultery is bloodless."
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"I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened."
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"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."
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"How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world."
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"Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up."
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"One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed."
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"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."
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"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
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"You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five."
Fulfillment
"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"
Mortality
"Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."
Mortality
"What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb."Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"That's big."Yes. But there's something else."What else?He leaned forward."Being forgotten," he whispered."
Death
"War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget."
Conflict
"Remember me for these days, not the old ones."
Memory
"As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her."
Memory
"Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners."
Discovery
"Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?"
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