I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
“I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.”
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I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
“I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.”
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“I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.”
“I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.”
“It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”
“The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.”
“I wasn't really a performer by temperament.”
“There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.”
“I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.”
“I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.”
“Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.”
“When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to talking about your past and the person that you once were.”
“'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.”