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«The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.»
«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.»
«The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
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childish, cowardice, origin, the Origin
«The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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boulevard, boulevards, Buildings, childish, fake, ghost, ghost town, Hollywood Boulevard, obsolescence, sumptuous, sunset, The Crowd, tornado, tornadoes, towns, tricks
«We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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card, card game, childish, Game of cards, tragedies
«When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things»
«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull...»
«These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.»
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