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>Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

>> No.4016693

>said the guy who wrote children's literature.

>> No.4016695

>>4016692
Source?

>> No.4016699

Reminds me of how when we were 10-13 years old, nobody wanted to play Mario anymore because it was for little kids. We wanted to play mature rated games for mature gamers such as ourselves.

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>>4016693
>"hur people following through on ideas wtf"

>> No.4016702

this used to get quoted a lot in fantasy threads

>> No.4016705

>>4016695

Clive Staples Lewis.

Yer kidding, right?

>> No.4016710

Sure thing, horsefucker.

>> No.4016732

>>4016701
>hurr why does the CEO of Toyota Motors say their cars are just as good as Ferraris and Porsches -- could it be because he's the CEO of Toyota Motors?

>> No.4016733

>>4016699
lol wat fagz

>> No.4016747

>>4016733
I know right? I have never met a 13 year old I liked, except when I was 13.

>> No.4016774

>>4016692

>man retells the new testament through a talking lion and a magical closet
>"that's a nice children's story, but people like Dante and Shakespeare are of a more mature breed."
>"muh fairy tales ur just immature because you think im immature!"

>> No.4016775

>>4016747
yeah we should have them all exterminated on their 13th birthdays.
Like they get a Hogwarts letter but when they get on the train it goes to Dachau.