What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

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David McAlister Barry (born 3 July 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer...

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He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

—Edith Wharton

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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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