"After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that theyâ€™d actually made some sort of choice."

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Source : Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

Tom Perrotta

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.”
“Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't have told you but you'll not worry any more if you know I'm in it than if you think I am. Have had the most strenuous work of my life, am very tired but otherwise absolutely in good condition physically mentally and morally.”
“To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.”
“Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.”
“Science fiction is an extension of science.”
“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”
“I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.”
“It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.”

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