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“Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.”
“She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.”
“We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.”
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.”
“But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can...”
“What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the experiences, the queer previsions, the fleeting premonitions, that are real. Vague and insubstantia...”
“Nowadays, it is true, we have mass media and expert propaganda to spread suspicion and fear. But the people I meanand they form the great majorityare not suspicious and fearful, as many educated an...”
