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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

~Edmund White

Topics: Adult Betrays Book Boy Case Creepy Enjoyed Etc Even Everyone Experience Gay He His Man Needed Novel Only Really Received Sexual Teacher Think Though Too Whom

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Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

~Edward Carey

Topics: Adult Adventure Fantastic Fiction Get Involved Joy Kids Much Part Perhaps Real Really Story Way Writing You

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I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Adult Adult Life Almost Almost All Been Being Life Like Spotlight Spy

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As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.

~Elayne Boosler

Topics: Adult Adult Life Almost Comedian Eve Every Life New Night Standup Worked Year

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I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Adult Always Books Children Loved Mysteries Particularly Reading Reading Books Those Young Young Adults

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Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Adult Author Children Guided Literature Margaret Me Out Took Towards Who

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

~Elias Canetti

Topics: Adult Also Child Children Consider Deceiving Deception Enjoy Figure Find Necessary Out Pleasure Practice Quickly Themselves Then Very

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For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Adult Adult Life Believed Carol Charles Childhood Christmas Dickens Knew Life Much Remembered Story

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An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.

~Elinor Lipman

Topics: Adult Books Characterized Comedy Early Editor Either Endings Funny Happy Intelligent Kind Know Like Me Out People Quirky Romantic Romantic Comedy See Set Them Think Voice Write You I Think

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Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

~Eliot Engel

Topics: Adult Also Cells Certain Difficult Diseased Exist Grow Identify May Need Problematic Purify Replaced Simply Stem Stem Cells

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