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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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"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."
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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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"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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"Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of."
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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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"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Faith is like a kernel of wheat."
Faith
"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
Adolescence
"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."
Urbanization
"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
"There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11."
Time
"Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever."
Communication
"Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's."
Love
"Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke."
Man
"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
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