"When a child is born, I once explained……" — Mordecai Richler

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• To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry
• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale
• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral… — Omar N. Bradley
• 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
• 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
• Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton
• Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,… — Arnaud Desjardins
• We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. — Charles Krauthammer
• One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the… — Unknown Author
• We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many… — Ralph Nader
• At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 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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