1,743 Quotes About Youth


  • Author Margaret Atwood
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    Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

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  • Author Julie Burchill
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    We sat there smiling at each other, shimmied to a standstill, thinking about all the boys that had wanted us that day, and how none of them had got us, not for a minute; how we'd let them pay for drinks and candyfloss and then run away laughing, their cries of 'Slags!' and 'Bitches' ringing in our ears like respect rather than derision.

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  • Author Franz Kafka
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    ...youth looks good in anything; unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth...

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  • Author Емилиян Станев
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    Войнта бе далеч - някъде на юг и на север, - ала тя се усещаше в смълчаната печал, легналата над страната, във войнишката молитва, дори в горещата, бездъхна августовска нощ. Нещо липсваше, за да бъде всичко естествено и спокойно - липсваха мъжете, младежите, липсваше самата младост.

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  • Author Julie Burchill
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    It was the flashing lights, and the noise of the machines, and the loud, loud music, all seeming to refract and contract around her, her eyes widening, her hair swooshing, her slow smile shining. She seemed an actual part of the place - all fun, all joy, all shimmery skittering energy.

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