Quote by Quentin Crisp
The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and c

The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
respect
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
Results
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
Happiness
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Other Quotes from
Teenagers
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The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m. – Author Unknown

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Teenagers

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. – Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951

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Teenagers

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. – Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent

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Teenagers

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson

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Teenagers

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