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"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead."
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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."
"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"
"As I think of myself, so I shall be."
"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."
"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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