"Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
“All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.”
“Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.”
“My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.”
“How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we donâ€™t care; we donâ€™t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.”
“Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.”
“You ever try to go a day without judgment?”
“I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.”

Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.8, Penguin

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