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Adolescence is like cactus.
Anais Nin
Youth is like a prickly pear.
2.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Max Lerner
4.
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
6.
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
Walker Percy
7.
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
Lord Byron
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We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
Natalia Ginzburg
10.
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
Carrie Fisher
11.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
12.
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
Erma Bombeck
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In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.
George Carlin
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The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Albert J. Nock
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
Suzanne Collins
18.
Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.
Andy Warhol
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Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.
David Gerrold
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All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
John Grant
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Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
Virginia Satir
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True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
Sophia Loren
23.
I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.
Polixeni Papapetrou
24.
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
Sue Townsend
25.
Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.
Elvis Presley
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Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
Mardy Grothe
27.
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
Ben Mendelsohn
29.
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale
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Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.
Joss Whedon
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From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.
Jay Saunders Redding
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
Tayari Jones
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In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
Mira Nair
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L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.
Marcel Proust
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many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.
Judith Viorst
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I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
Jenna Fischer
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
Randy Quaid
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All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
Helene Deutsch
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We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.
Paula Danziger
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
Adrienne Rich
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My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.
Greg Kinnear
45.
Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
Mary Pipher
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In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
Paulo Coelho
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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.
John Irving
48.
When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.
Gus Van Sant
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Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
Erma Bombeck
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Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.
Mary Tyler Moore