"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to……" — Anita Diament
"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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53 Quotes by Anita Diament
Anita Diament has 53 quotes on this site.
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up…
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for…
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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor…
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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More Adolescent Quotes
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one of 152 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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