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“I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.”

Feels Stills Easier Adults Easier Times

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.”

Men Children Feelings Joy Suffering Lost Sleep Gone Grace Wise Bears Easier Pure Capable Adults Spread Complicated Innocence Freshness Happy Children Pure Joy

Author:Arnaud Desjardins

“Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.”

Ifs Thinking Men Writing Children Kids Easy Perspective Easier Adults Clever Odd Minorities Old Man Pie Weary Precocious

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.”

Thinking World Whole Parent Interesting Cases Generations Information Internet Easier Adults Gains Trade Digital Activist Domain Youtube Intriguing New Generation Younger Generation Brewing

Author:Serj Tankian

“Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.”

Way Kind Children Ability Easier Adults Surreal

Author:Julie Taymor

“The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.”

Bigs Havens Baby Easier Mouths Adults Appetite Killers Insects Gardener

Author:Janet Macunovich

“It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?"”

Kids Jobs Easier Adults Judgmental

Author:Natalie Portman

“It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.”

Children Remember Imagine Easier Adults

Author:Mara Wilson

“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.”

Trying Children Asks Talking Wind Easier Adults Blow Over You Not Talking

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.”

Believe Persons Doe Young Dies Easier Adults Abstract Portions Unreal

Author:Milan Kundera

“No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.”

People Feels Years Real Pain Easier Concepts Adults Eleven

Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.”

People Thinking World Children Ends Certain Turns Bits Animal Baby Easier Understood Adults Clean Lips Milk Feeding Cleaning Catching Granny

Author:Terry Pratchett

“To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.”

Mean Doe Made Results Goes On Easier Despair Adults Ugly Made It Spite Usual Ambiguity Annihilation Hardened

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays