Aren't there any grownups at all?

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The greatest ideas are the simplest.

William Golding in Lord of The Flies
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men — they are far superior and always have been.

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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

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