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I think adults are just children who owe money.
— Peter's Friends · 1992
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Adulthood is reduced to a financial obligation rather than a transformation in character. The suggestion is that the child remains, with debt added on top. Its humour comes from deflating the dignity of being grown up, replacing assumed maturity with the less flattering fact of owing someone money.
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