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• I’m very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What’s most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

  Hugh Hefner

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• The upheavals of adolescence silenced ‘A Christmas Carol’ for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas – humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  Whitley Strieber

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  Tags in Atheist, Adolescence

• A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

  Rufus Sewell

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• When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don’t know if it’s something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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  Tags in Adolescence, Whatever

• I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

  Suzanne Collins

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• I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

  Stanislav Grof

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• Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

  G. Stanley Hall

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• I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn’t want to be tied down to a family.

  Randy Quaid

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  Tags in Delay, Adolescence

• I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

  William Shakespeare

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  Tags in Adolescence, Rest, Sleep

• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  Jules Feiffer

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• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

  Earl Wilson

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• I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.

  Arthur Miller

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  Tags in Adolescence, Theater, Poets

• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

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• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  Joe Baca

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  Tags in Adolescence, Political, Head

• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

  Coco Chanel

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• Peter,’ she asked, trying to speak firmly, ‘what are your exact feelings for me?’
  Those of a devoted son, Wendy.’
  I thought so,’ she said, and went and sat by herself at the extreme end of the room.
  You are so queer,’ he said, frankly puzzled, ‘and Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something she wants to be to me, but she says it is not my mother.’
  No, indeed, it is not,’ Wendy replied with frightful emphasis.

  J. M. Barrie

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Adolescence