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"During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me."
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"The country has 80 crore youth. They are below 35 years of age. If youth have the skill, they can change the destiny of this country. And we are laying stress on this."

"Sometimes she walks through the village in herlittle red dressall absorbed in restraining herself,and yet, despite herself, she seems to moveaccording to the rhythm of her life to come.She runs a bit, hesitates, stops,half-turns around...and, all while dreaming, shakes her headfor or against.Then she dances a few stepsthat she invents and forgets,no doubt finding out that lifemoves on too fast.It's not so much that she steps outof the small body enclosing her,but that all she carries in herselffrolics and ferments.It's this dress that she'll rememberlater in a sweet surrender;when her whole life is full of risks,the little red dress will always seem right."

"Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth."

"You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."

"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun."

"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire."

"Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers."

"I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness, but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference that was only pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether."

"I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth."
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"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."


"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."


"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."


"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."


"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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