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• J. D. Salinger... John Knowles... even James Kirkwood and that guy Don Bredes.
  .. they've destroyed being an adolescent,Garraty. If you're a sixteen-year-old boy, you can't discuss the pains of adolescent love with any decency anymore....
• The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
  JESSEL...
• accumulator n. obs. 1. Archaic term for a register.
  On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old....
• The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
  -- Sir George Jessel...
• If at all possible, you should avoid being a young person or a wheat farmer when the president starts feeling international tension.
  -- Dave Barry...
• First: If you're going to be funny, you have to have truth rooted in your effort.
  Later: When I said women shouldn't have the right to vote, I was just being funny....
• Do you like being like you are?
• One of the inadequate preparations being young allows is that you are not prepared for the time when you will be old.
• Being a ghost seems like the most wearying thing I can think of.
  Have you ever studied Latin? Okay, the second most wearying. -- Stephen Brust, _Agyar_...