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"I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst."
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"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."
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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."
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Personal Development
"Do you think it will always be this way?'What?'I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know, I said. 'Tomorrow."
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Personal Development
"A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life."
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Personal Development
"Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth."
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Personal Development
"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."
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Personal Development
"I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen."
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Personal Development
"It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet."
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"Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more."
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Personal Development
"We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.Then it melts.The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
Fact
"I don't like conflict."
Conflict
"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."
Life
"'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry."
People
"On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child."
Christian
"The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things."
People
"I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out."
Future
"Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that."
Change
"In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes."
Food
"I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour."
Dining
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