Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Cyril Connolly
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  1. Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. - Oscar Wilde

  4. To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. - Maya Angelou

  5. Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous? - Dave Eggers

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  1. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

  2. When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

  3. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

  4. As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  5. It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode, ’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer...

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