“Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.”

Source: Imago (1989), Chapter II, “Exile” section 9 (p. 649)

Source: The Siege of Macindaw

Source: Fer-de-Lance

David Webb Show http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/05/ohio-male-rnc-member-calls-carly-fiorina-hot-babe/ (5 August 2015).
2010s, 2015, David Webb Show (August 2015)

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

As quoted in Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, & Other Fields (1982) by Ann Evory
Context: I talk about the things people have always talked about in stories: pain, hate, truth, courage, destiny, friendship, responsibility, growing old, growing up, falling in love, all of these things. What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads. I try to go into those places in me that contain the cauldrous. I want to dip up the fire, and I want to put it on paper. The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work. … It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me — that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. Because my immortal soul will be lost.

Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 8 (p. 87)