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“The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.”
“One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.”
“No man knows he is young while he is young.”
“When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quic...”
“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”
“But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterdaythose days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!”
“I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change them into clockwork images or talking shadows. I won't drain out their life's blood. They can do all...”
“Fools in other words most people imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit us. ("A Woman's Ven...”
“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”
“[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.”
“Long story short, you will at least get that one unreasonable impulse to prove to yourself that that the invincibility and imperviousness that you feel during youth. Its something tangible, somethi...”
“One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.”
“When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility”
“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.”
“They walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious yo...”
“Connor is my friend... I've hacked. Which one came first?”
“The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.”
“Some call it growing up. I call it life, and in my experience, it doesn't necessarily get easier over the years. But the eternal struggle is beautiful, and I'm happy to persevere.”
“I think I've lived quite the unorthodox life so far, but you probably feels that way about yourself too. So much goes untold in our lives.”
“They call it "young music"; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They invoke the name of spontaneity, nonconformity and originality; actua...”