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«Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.»
«Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas»
«Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.»
«Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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adults, childish, clarity, devils, get rid of, goblin, goblins, Gods Themselves, identity, No Angel, obsolete, openly, Or logic, psychology, punctuation, quench, quenches, rebellion, redeem, The Family, The Gods Themselves, The Witches, thirst, witches, witching, yawn, yawning, yawns
«Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
adults, Christmas gift, Christmas tree, constitutes, derive, hanging, Ready made, unreceptive
«Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's, given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.»
«Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
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adults, general interest, Olds, play down, reaching, segment, segments, talk down
«Adults are obsolete children.»
«Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.»
«Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Adulthood,
Affection
| Keywords:
adult, adults, Grown up, relatively, selfish
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