“Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?”

— Barbara Kingsolver , book Flight Behavior

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American author, poet and essayist 1955

Cheyenne McCray (1965) writer

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“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

William Faulkner book Light in August

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“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”

Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist

“People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.”

Mort Sahl (1927–2021) American comedian and actor

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“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
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“Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, “Oh, that’s different from my perspective – tell me more.””

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 36.

“Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing.”

Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist

"The Shadowland of Dreams"', published in Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work (1996) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte and Tim Clauss; also in Alex Haley : The Man Who Traced America's Roots (2007), a collection of stories and essays by Haley published in Reader's Digest between 1954 to 1991.
Context: Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.

“I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

Interview 2006. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohEz13V1Vhk&feature=related

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

"Emotions", p. 36.
The Second Sin (1973)

“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?”

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