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Quotation by Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor (13)Additional Sources
"Easter" Leaving Home (1987)"Exiles" Leaving Home (1987)"That Old 'Picayune-Moon'" Harper's (New York, Sept. 1990)The Book of Guys (1993)"The Meaning of Life" We Are Still Married (1989)Related Subjects
adolescent development (14) growing up female (6) parents on living with teenagers (6) adolescent and adult relationships, general (6) adolescent development of girls, influence of pare (5) growing up male (4) adolescent development in girls (4) adolescents' friendships and peer groups (4) early adolescence (2) advice to parents (2)
Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.
Garrison Keillor (20th century), U.S. humorist and author. The Book of Guys, introduction (1993).
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