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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 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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"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
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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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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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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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"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
"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."
Money
"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
Intelligence
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."
Men
"Poetry lies its way to the truth."
Poetry
"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
Fun
"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
Love
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."
Character
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
College
"The day will happen whether or not you get up."
Day
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