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“As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening”

People Inspirational Trying Two Spirit Creative Four Creating Happenings Twenties Affair Love Affair Creative People Twenty One

Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.”

Source: Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth L. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony, and Josephine L. Griffing, to the Congress of the United States, and the Arguments Thereon Before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate

“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.”

Wells Earth Faces Father Left Adventure Taste Died Twenties Dollars Pursuit Almighty Twenty One Resigned Wanderers Father Died My Father Died

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Plans Failing Consequence Baseball Twenties Upset Twenty One Superstar Messed Up

Author:Albert Belle

“Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.”

Ifs Feels Years Made Would Be Running Felt Example Serious Poet Female Twenties Suicide Thirty Helpful Twenty One Running Out Of Time Plath

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”

Happened Comfortable Twenties Twenty One Hiroshima Scientific Truth

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.”

Years War Havens Twenties Encounters Fearful Torn Twenty One Bosnia Disheartening

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.”

Twenties Twenty One

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.”

Thinking Used Father Twenties Idiot Twenty One

Author:Mark Twain

“When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one.”

Ifs Thinking Years Littles Said I Can Matter Girl Wish Growth Chance Opinion Twenties My Favorite Singers Bars Factors Twenty One Favorite Singer

Author:Taylor Swift

“I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.”

Years Mind Different House Numbers Twenties Fascinated Twenty One Seventeen Seventeen Years Old

Author:Robert Indiana

“That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.”

Men Years Games One Thing Proud Twenties Neurosis Twenty One

Book:Everything and a Kite

Source: Everything and a Kite

“When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.”

Thinking Writing Littles Stills Stories Care Kids Able School Couple Twenties Twenty One Day Care

Author:Grace Paley

“My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.”

Feels Artist Levels Creativity Fans Higher Creating Twenties Twenty One Higher Level

Author:Talib Kweli

“The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.”

Years Age Individual Five Ten Skills Twenties Assumption Replaced Obsolete Twenty One New Knowledge Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.”

Firsts Father Twenties Stores Parenthood Twenty One Planned Parenthood Work Experience

Author:Jessa Crispin

“I was twenty one years old and I thought, "here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go down hill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me.”

Years Looks Life Is Causes Risk Twenties Mirrors Hills Twenty One Here I Am

Author:John Assaraf

“Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.”

Has Beens Book Hands Three Justice My Own Tests Bases Twenties Peculiar Emerging Twenty One Complement Idiosyncrasies

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?”

Ifs Ends Used Class Drug Yoga Twenties Stronger Shooting Serenity Heroin Grudge Twenty One Coke Thirteen Asana Shooting Up Holding Grudges

Author:Angel Grant

“One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.”

Thinking Way Wells Said Stills Girl Study Special Mets One Day Married India Twenties Asking London Indian Twenty One Sari

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.”

Real Moments Jobs Lasts Found Lost Born Twenties Track Quitting Magazines Tied Packages Twenty One Prestige I Quit Tied Up Real Jobs Small Packages

Author:Anne Lamott

“A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.”

Years Childhood Twenties Adolescence Twenty One

Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan

Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan

“The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.”

Years Persons Facts Age Capacity Twenties Determine Determined Reasonable Contracts Criteria Twenty One

Book:A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People

Source: A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People

“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”

Twenties Permanent Birthday Twenty One Milestone Birthday 20th Birthday

Author:Orson Welles

“Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.”

Men Age Young Community Marriage Twenties Young Man Twenty One Funny Marriage Menace Unmarried

Author:Brigham Young

“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.”

Men Time Twenties Excellence Twenty One Climax

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”