"The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks……" — Tayari Jones
"The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature."
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25 Quotes by Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones has 25 quotes on this site.
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People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill…
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental.…
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The…
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a…
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Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more…
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized…
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This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we…
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't…
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More Adolescent Quotes
This quote is filed under Adolescent Quotes,
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…
— Nicholas Rescher
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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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