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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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"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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"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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"Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up."
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"No adultery is bloodless."
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"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."
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"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note."
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"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."
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"I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around."
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"Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken."
Silence
"Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers."
Motivation
"As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage."
Relationship
"So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?"
Fulfillment
"I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable."
Travel
"There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning."
Motivation
"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."
Maturity
"Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man."
Identity
"Love your kids and just be there for them. You don't have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that's too much."
Parenting
"I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions . . ."
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