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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack…
— J. G. Ballard
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
— Kate Beckinsale
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
— Carol Burnett
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of…
— Coco Chanel
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
— John Ciardi
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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted…
— Nikola Tesla
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid,…
— Jules Feiffer
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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those…
— Tom Brokaw
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…
— Vincent Canby
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