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"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
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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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"You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has."
Experience
"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."
Diet
"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."
Movies
"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
Education
"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
Growing up
"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
Time
"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."
Food
"Because nobody goes through life without a scar."
Life
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
Life
"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."
School
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