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“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.”

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Author:Anita Shreve

“I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?”

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Author:Sarah Schulman

“Thats the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.”

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Author:Jon Hurwitz

“With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I try to stay far away from all of them. I was tempted to go to my snotty high school reunion, but luckily I resisted the urge--when I received the hand-out that described what everyone is doing now, I fell asleep reading it. Boring!”

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Author:Princess Superstar

“There was a girl I loved in high school - but never spoke to. Cut to my five-year reunion: I'm an entirely different person.”

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Author:Dane Cook

“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'”

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Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.”

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Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.”

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Author:Anderson Cooper