George Alec Effinger Quotes
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I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
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I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.
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A man goes to a fancy dress party dressed only in his Y-fronts. A woman comes up to him and says "What are you supposed to be?" The man says "A premature ejaculation." "What?" says the woman. The man explains "I've just come in my pants."
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To me, it'd be way too premature right now for that to happen. That's something that will be talked about and discussed.
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I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.
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Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
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Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
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Our DNA was mixed with a species from outer space and apes; we’re a mixture of the two.
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God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.
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We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
