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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

John Irving
Ambition, Childhood, Adults
John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

John Irving
Childhood, Fancy, Grows
John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

John Irving
Loss, Childhood, Events
John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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