"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

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Source : The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

Quentin Crisp

#Teenage Quotes #Parent Quotes #Rebel Quotes

“The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.”
“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.303, Vintage
“Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.”
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
“The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?”
“Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.”
“I'm saying that I lived too long. You want them to actually miss you [...] I truly believe there exists some combination of words. There must exist certain words in a certain specific order that can explain all of this, but with her I just can't ever seem to find them.”
“The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”

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