“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”

— Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper

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For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever.
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