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Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII

Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Introduction
“Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.”
08 Jul 92
Source: The Days Are Just Packed

“Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.”
Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues.

“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”
Chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=7MGFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+management+of+fertility+is+one+of+the+most+important%22+%22of+adulthood%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage
Sex and Destiny : The Politics of Human Fertility (1984)

“Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.”
Source: Everwild

“Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.”
Source: This Lullaby

“I felt age within me. Distance.
The futility of wandering. Torpor.”
"Lot's Wife"
Poems New and Collected (1998), A Large Number (1976)
Context: I felt age within me. Distance.
The futility of wandering. Torpor.
I looked back setting my bundle down.
I looked back not knowing where to set my foot.
Serpents appeared on my path,
spiders, field mice, baby vultures.
They were neither good nor evil now — every living thing
was simply creeping or hopping along in the mass panic.