"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

Esar, Evan on Women
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"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."

Mcginley, Phyllis on Family
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"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."

Schulz, Charles M. on Family
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"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives."

Paglia, Camille on Adolescence
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"They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc."

Frank, Anne on Adolescence
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"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."

Feiffer, Jules on Adolescence
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"Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung."

Saying, Zen on Zen
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"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

Wilde, Oscar on Fantasy
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"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."

Seuss, Dr. on Fantasy
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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on Fantasy
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"When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away."

Brand, Stewart on Fantasy
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"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."

Baudelaire, Charles on Fantasy
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Happiness
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Frost, Robert on Happiness
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"To fill the hour -- that is happiness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Happiness
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"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door"

Edwards, Tryon on Happiness
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"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."

Dyer, Wayne on Happiness
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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

Dumas, Alexandre on Happiness
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on Happiness
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