Quote by Haniel Long
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret an

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy. – Haniel Long

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama… Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly. – Haniel Long

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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. – Haniel Long

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best
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Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself. – Haniel Long

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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed. – Robert S. Hillyer

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Ah, but I was so much older then, Im younger than that now. – Bob Dylan

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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice – that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it. – Sydney J. Harris

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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. – Nicholson Baker

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