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"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
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"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time."
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Personal Development

"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."
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Personal Development

"Some people are boys longer than others."
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Personal Development

"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business " that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
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Personal Development

"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."
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Personal Development

"At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time."
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"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
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Personal Development

"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
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"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
Adolescence

"Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action."
War

"The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother."
Fight

"A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators."
Politics

"Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke."
Man

"Faith is like a kernel of wheat."
Faith

"Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's."
Love

"I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?"
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"If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure.""
Sex

"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."
Urbanization
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