“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?”
― Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures
― Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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