"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. You just come off
sounding like fucking Ron Howard with a hardon."
Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
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. You just come off
sounding like fucking Ron Howard with a hardon."
Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Related:
- It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it
starts being you.
Stephen King, _The Stand_... - You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D.... - Then there's the atmosphere -- half the time you can eat the air,
it's got so much stuff floating around in it. It takes... - As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty,
and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life... - As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty,
and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life... - As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual
certainty,
and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life...
From the same category:
- On the old "You Bet Your Life" program, Groucho Marx was getting to know
one of his contestants.
The man told Groucho that he had 10 children. "Why... - Anybody can win,
unless there happens to be a second entry... - A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation... - The older a man gets,
the farther he had to walk to school as a boy... - The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself
at the ground and miss." ...
