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adolescence
«The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence»
Author: Art Linkletter
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
adolescence, infancy, obsolescence, stages, The Four
«There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
| Keywords:
absorbing, adolescence, fugue, fugues, height, In the City, middle age, retrenchment, retrenchments, sullen, The City
«What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
adolescence, first flight, hover, hovered, hovers, irony, mixture, surrounds, tenderness, watchfulness, young bird
«So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition»
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
adolescence, arrest, arrested development, class feeling, cowardly, deduce, deduced, disappointments, dominate, Eton, glories, ruling, ruling class, school system, self-conscious, sentimental, theory of, The Ruling Class, undergone
«The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Adolescence,
Poets,
Repression,
Theater
| Keywords:
adolescence, exploiting, keyhole, keyholes, obsessive, sexuality, shoulders, Through the Keyhole, tiptoe, tiptoed, wallow, wallowed, wallowing, way out