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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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"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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Personal Development
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"Some people are boys longer than others."
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Personal Development
"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
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Personal Development
"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
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Personal Development
"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."
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Personal Development
"Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts, ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul."
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Personal Development
"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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"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking
"The role of art in society differs for every artist."
Art
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
Funny
"Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next."
Nothing
"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."
Thought
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
Family
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
Architecture
"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."
Love
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
Architecture
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