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"Youth is wasted on the young."
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"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."
"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."
"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself."
"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun."
"For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is but considers himself to be very small. He has unbounded trust in the universe but is constantly unsure of himself."
"A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."
"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
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