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“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”

World Mind Children Play Action Fear Dark Creative Fronts Concepts Adults Enormous Fearful Yards Dark World Adult Children

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.”

People World Important Moments Fall Lost Answers Failing Stage Fronts This World Periods Adults Falling In Love Busy Invisible Peers Too Busy Listen To Me Spoken Word Time Periods

Author:Sarah Kay

“As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.”

People Trying Morning Streets Fronts Adults Competition Crowds Bars Fats Hey Quarters Costumes Tuesday Early Morning Bourbon French Quarter Bourbon Street

Author:Bryan Batt

“Because of what I experienced when I was a kid, I want kids to have that kind of an epiphany moment, that little jolt, that little spark that they see when Dusty ['Planes'] flies higher than he has before. That scene where he flies straight up, and he's starting to get dizzy, and then finally it comes together. We forget as adults. We get jaded and we think that's kids' stuff, but for a kid who doesn't know about anything technical or how a movie is made, they're just going to see this and hear this beautiful score and see this dynamic, fantastical thing happening in front of them.”

Thinking Knows Want Kind Littles Made Moments Kids Together Beautiful Stuff Forget Fronts Higher Scene Happenings Adults Starting Things Happen Planes Score Sparks Epiphany Dizzy Jaded Straight Up

Author:Dane Cook

“I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.”

Want Writing Looks School Sound Differences Teacher Fronts Particular High School Adults Letters University Versions Uncles Aunt School Teachers High School Teachers

Author:David Sedaris

“When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.”

Needs Trying Bigs Lying Fronts Like You Adults Big Picture

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.”

Parent Fronts Television Quiet Adults Noise Noisy Prozac

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”

Years Said Two Enough Moments Facts Hands Kids Turns Felt Sides Situation Teacher Fronts Serious Needed Adults Treats Treated Mature Frustrating Respectable Annoyed Had Enough Badges

Book:Darkness Be My Friend

Source: Darkness Be My Friend

“Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.”

Needs Mean Children Sleep Childhood Fronts Bears Terrible Bed Adults Command Confession Humiliation Stigma

Book:The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

Source: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.”

World Way Needs Believe Together Lying Fronts Identity Despair Adults Mirrors Deceit Our World Fragile Cloaks Ephemeral

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.”

Book Fronts Adults My Time Shelves Skeletons

Author:Daniel Handler