Ocupation: Fiction writer
Life: b. August 20, 1961
Birthday: August 20
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
source: Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism
topic: Growing Up, Lying, Emotional, Stranded, Make The Best Of It, Emotional Maturity