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Clive James Quotes: The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.
         

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.


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This page presents the quote "The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.". Author of this quote is Clive James. This quote is about death, curiosity, mortality,.