"It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager."

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Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

David Crabb

#Teenager Quotes #Book Quotes #Important Quotes

“We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.”
“I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.”
“Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.”
“Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.”
“A man is powerful on his knees.”
“I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.”
“In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.”
“Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.”

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