"I write with teenagers in mind."

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Bernard Beckett

#Teenager Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.”
“You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.”
“It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.”
“And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean â€˜inner selvesâ€™, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if youâ€™re searching for happiness; if youâ€™re searching for tranquility; if youâ€™re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.”
“Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas”
“Learn and think imperially.”
“The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.”

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