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“One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.”

“It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.”

Affection Immature Demeaning

Author:John Knowles

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

Men Want Dies Causes Growing Up Mark Aging Maturity Mature Immature Wanting To Die Immaturity Being Immature Mature And Immature

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that. -Bobby Tom”

Ifs Men Littles Self Body Happens Boys Appreciate Toms Self Centered Little Boys Immature Undisciplined

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.”

Believe Children Real Ends Reality Young Passion Half Stage Youth Terrible Speech Variety Costumes Immature Playgrounds Nero Bonaparte

Author:Milan Kundera

“I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.”

Years Littles Has Beens Might Choices Saws Thrown Might Have Been Eleven Immature Gauntlet

Book:If I Stay

Source: If I Stay

“Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...”

Men Fellows Commit Display Immature Reluctance Being Immature

Author:Julie Burchill

“I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.”

Ifs Way Littles Whole Used Machines Angry Whole Life Reactions Immature Spats

Book:The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow

Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow

“No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it”

Inspirational Book Enough Moments Turns Students Letting Go Finished Immature

Book:After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings

Source: After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings

“I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)”

Ifs Thinking Artist Behinds Taken Months Distance Photograph Fake Hiding Our Relationship Lenses Misunderstood Neurotic Marble Obsessive Pillars Stalking Immature Afar Zoom Glitches Nikon

Author:Joan Bauer

“I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.”

Men Years Two Wanted Objects Percent Hundred International My Time Considering Glamorous Immature Playboy Undead Dashing

Book:Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night

Source: Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”

Mind Running Dark Passionate Faculty Running Away Suspicion Trails Immature Curiousity

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

“I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell my why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb.”

People Knows Want Children Persons Feelings Kids Next Attention Mets Conversation Smell Bars Dumb Devices Transgender Immature Daytime

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.”

Said Situation Intelligent Comment Politeness Lively Immature Emily

Book:The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy

Source: The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

Different Poet Stealing Copies Mature Imitation Great Art Something Better Great Artist Immature Good Art Good Artist Talent And Genius Mature And Immature Imitating Others Stealing Things

Author:T. S. Eliot

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”

Source: Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War

“The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.”

Littles Dream Reality Tree Sky Wind Cold Comfort Knees Necks Iron Denied Grey Breeze Chill Shields Skirts Immature Spiteful Hem

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults”

Facts Seems Young Perfect Adults Immature Unforgivable Decrepit

Author:Tite Kubo

“She should want to see me. If I had said how I feel about her, she would miss me even more. All this time, I've been breaking her heart by keeping her wait, yet I can't still appear before her eyes. I never want to see her cry anymore. Even if it means I no longer exist in her heart. How immature of me, right? -Kudou Shinichi”

Ifs Want Feels Should Heart Mean Said Stills I Can Eye Waiting Missing Cry Her Eyes Immature Miss Me

Author:Gosho Aoyama

“Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”

Love Needs Principles Love You Maturity Mature Inspirational Love Need You Immature I Need You Say I Love You Immaturity Infantile Mature Love Art Of Loving I Love You Because Being Immature Mature And Immature

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?”

Author:Steven Moffat

“There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.”

Men Happiness Perfect Growing Capable Bees Ants Immature Unfinished Learning And Growing

Author:Eric Hoffer

“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

World Ends Poetry Perfect Impossible Written Poet Stealing Mature Immature

Author:Robert Graves

“I need you because I love you.”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.”

People Has Beens Made Lasts Sin Half Century Sick Ugly Frightened Immature Underprivileged

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

People Mind Soul Success Spirit Principles Courage Strength Army Blind Relate Muscles Insecurity Manhood Immature Toughness Reflexes Fear And Courage Strength And Perseverance

Author:Alex Karras

“Look twice before you leap.”

Life Looks Women Responsibility Leap Caution Taking Action Immature

Book:Shirley and The Professor

Source: Shirley and The Professor

“Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.”

Five Twenties Aging Bizarre Twenty Five Immature

Author:Bridget Fonda

“My rookie year, I was very immature.”

Years Basketball Immature Rookies Being Immature Mature And Immature

Author:Dennis Rodman

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”

Life Inspirational Looks Wisdom Difficult Business Wise Planning Optimistic Immature Looking Ahead

Book:Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”

Looks Leadership Investing Moving Forward Patriotism Backwards Criminal Mind Immature

Author:Winston Churchill

“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.”

Life Inspirational Home Funny Time Women Marriage Wife My Wife Boat Maturity Baths Funny Marriage Immature Being Immature Mature And Immature

Author:Woody Allen

“The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one”

Men Want Inspirational Dies Causes Maturity Mature Immature Wanting To Die

Author:Wilhelm Stekel

“No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.”

Law Used Evil Doubt Stage Masters Discipline Bounds Rounds No Doubt Immature Saplings

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.”

Thinking Love Dream Missing Elements Lazy Immature

Author:Bjork

“Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.”

Men Literature Testimony Immature Inconsistency Immaturity Being Immature

Author:Edwin Louis Cole

“The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.”

Artist Stealing Mature Immature Plagiarism

Author:Lionel Trilling

“What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.”

People Men War Eye Boys Missing Maturity Rough Mature Life Lesson Ceremony Immature Puberty

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“It's insecure, and it's immature.”

Insecure Immature

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.”

Feels Funny Boys Offers Waste Shots Twenties Wasting Time Immature

Author:Megan Fox

“I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature”

Needs Prove Adults Sexy Immature Ultras

Author:Aly Michalka

“We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.”

Thinking Littles Use Able Wanted Past Difficult Emotion Situation Immature Stimulation Difficult Situations

Author:Billy Corgan

“We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.”

Kind School High School Smoking Sections Immature

Author:Matt Stone

“The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.”

Different Whole Feelings Poet Unique Stealing Torn Great Art Theft Great Artist Immature Good Art Good Artist Being Immature Mature And Immature

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy”

Philosophy Study Psychology Yield Unhealthy Immature Crippled Cripples

Book:American politics and humanistic psychology

Source: American politics and humanistic psychology

“Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!”

Easy Roles Mankind Comfortable Aliens Guidance Cowardice Laziness Minors Guardian Immature Immaturity

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public.”

Tendencies Fluid Immature Giggle

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.”

Way Mind Believe Wells Children Reality Remember Moving Young I Believe Fantasy Our Lives Fit Adults Back And Forth Immature Young Children Fantasy And Reality

Author:Maurice Sendak

“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.”

Ifs Spiritual Walks Support Path Buddhist Companionship Spiritual Path Immature Peace And Happiness Support You

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”