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#1

“That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: old-age, youth

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#2

“Depression is seductive: it offends and teases, frightens you and draws you in, tempting you with its promise of sweet oblivion, then overwhelming you with a nearly sexual power, squirming past your defenses, dissolving your will, invading the tired spirit so utterly that it becomes difficult to recall that you ever lived without it...or to imagine that you might live that way again. With all the guile of Satan himself, depression persuades you that its invasion was all your own idea, that you wanted it all along. It fogs the part of the brain that reasons, that knows right from wrong. It captures you with its warm, guilty, hateful pleasures, and, worst of all, it becomes familiar. All at once, you find yourself in thrall to the very thing that most terrifies you. Your work slides, your friendships slide, your marriage slides, but you scarcely notice: to be depressed is to be half in love with disaster.”
― Stephen L. Carter

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#3

“I do not know where Romeo comes from or even his real name. He was once on the street, as he puts it-meaning he dealt drugs-but managed to find Jesus without the inconvenience of first going to prison.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park

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#4

“We serve a hard, edgy crowd. Nearly all the women are black. Few make much effort with appearances any more. Most arrive with hair mashed and twisted, in unwashed sweatshirts and dirty jeans. There is grime under their cracked, badly painted nails. A handful have white teeth, but most passed long ago from yellow to brown. Several have problems with drugs. A few are quite obviously HIV-positive. The women drag themselves through the line like forgotten spirits shuffling off toward the River Styx. They are neither enthusiastic nor reluctant, neither fatalistic nor indignant. They are, for the most part, utterly without affect. They do not grin, cry, laugh, complain. They are merely present. In college, we would-be revolutionaries pretended that the oppressed would one day rise as a mighty army to smite the capitalists, overthrow the system, and establish a truly just society. Well, here are a couple of dozen of the most oppressed people in America, all lined up for their food, and the greatest passion they are able to summon is for brief but heated argument over who got the larger portion. Half may be dead in two years. If not for the hopeful, innocent beauty of their children, who still return a smile for a smile, I probably could not bear to come at all.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park

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#5

“This is what conservatives have spawned with their welfare cuts and their indifference to the plight of those not like themselves, say my colleagues at the university. This is what liberals have spawned with their fostering of the victim mentality and their indifference to the traditional values of hard work and family, my father used to tell his cheering audiences. In my sour moments, it strikes me that both sides seem much more interested in winning the argument than in alleviating these women's suffering.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park

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#6

“I pass flurries of undergrads who, despite their proudly proclaimed diversity, look more and more the same.”
― Stephen L. Carter

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#7

“She and her late husband, Leander Cross, a prominent surgeon of the darker nation, were, in my childhood, perhaps the leading host of the Gold Coast party circuit, a circuit my parents traveled often, because it was, in those days, what one did: glittering dinner at one house on the Friday, champagne brunch at another on the Sunday, caterers, cooks, even temporary butlers at the ready as the best of black Washington charged about in mad imitation of white people's foolishness.”
― Stephen L. Carter

tags: humor

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#8

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]”
― John Howard Bryant

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#9

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

[Letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841]”
― George Eliot, George Eliot’s Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals

tags: autumn, fall, nature, seasons, weather

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#10

“It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.”
― PG Wodehouse Jeeves and the Old School Chum

tags: autumn

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#11

“L'automne est un deuxième ressort où chaque feuille est une fleur.”
― Albert Camus

tags: automne, autumn

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#12

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing

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#13

“To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: achievement, ambition, determination, dreams, goal, goals, how, meaning, purpose, reach-for-the-stars, reach-for-your-dreams, reason, why, wrong-foot

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#14

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

tags: grief, life, nicholas-sparks, the-rescue, youth

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#15

“I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...”
― Tom Petty

tags: attributed-no-source, college, leisure, stupidity, work, youth

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#16

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

tags: death, wisdom, youth

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#17

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: entitlement, inexperience, krakauer, mccandless, naivete, youth

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#18

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
― Sophia Loren

tags: aeshetics, age, aging, creativity, youth

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#19

“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
― Ogden Nash

tags: humor, youth

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#20

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

tags: existence, existentialism, maturity, youth

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#21

“I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
― Jess C Scott, New Order

tags: bisexual, bisexuality, bisexuals, body, books, boy, cool, culture, desire, emotion, erotic, erotica, friendship, funny, gay, gay-men, gay-rights, glbt, guy, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, sexuality, society, society-s-increasing-stupidity, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth

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#22

“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: children, gravity, youth

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#23

“I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: alone, breaking-up, change, charlotte-eriksson, growing-up, heart-break, impressed, life, love, mind, moving-on, people, places, poetry, prose, the-glass-child, youth

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#24

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, truth, youth

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#25

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: youth

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#26

“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: age, war, youth

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#27

“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

tags: adolescence, youth

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#28

“That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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#29

“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
― Aristotle

tags: deceit, gullibility, hope, wisdom, youth

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#30

“It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.”
― Scott Spencer, Endless Love

tags: life, love, youth

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