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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
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"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you."
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"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
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"So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?--ZP.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind.Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)"
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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"One had to be careful with elbows and boys."
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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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"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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"Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of."
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"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
Art
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
Adolescence
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."
Character
"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
Opinion
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
Time
"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
American
"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
Idea
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
College
"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
Trust
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
Moderation
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