"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved." — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that… — J. G. Ballard
• What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. — Martha Beck
• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. — Kate Beckinsale
• Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it… — Andrea Bocelli
• I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At… — Geraldine Brooks
• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. — Carol Burnett
• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken… — Coco Chanel
• You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. — John Ciardi
• Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped… — Nikola Tesla
• At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I… — Jules Feiffer
• The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched… — Tom Brokaw
• Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward… — Vincent Canby

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