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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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"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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"Some people are boys longer than others."
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"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
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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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"Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids-all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine-it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order."
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"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
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"I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along."
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"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London."
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"When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she'd kept from raising her hand because she didn't want to seem too smart or too eager?"
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"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
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"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."
Urbanization
"In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions."
People
"If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure.""
Sex
"There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11."
Time
"Faith is like a kernel of wheat."
Faith
"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
"A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators."
Politics
"The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother."
Fight
"It's not a crime to get drunk."
Crime
"Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke."
Man
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