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“...it was magic to feel you had things to say and people to say them to, and a gentle fog of contentment filled the bar...”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

tags: youth

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“Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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“From now on when a boy starts telling me about his lost loves I am going to run in the opposite direction screaming loudly... Somehow I bring out such confidences, and I'm pretty sick of hearing about Bobbe or Dorothy or P.K. or Liota. God damn them all.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: humor, lost-loves

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“If being young is a crime scene,” I said, “the evidence from that night is everywhere.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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