“Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.” IdeasFunSexDogYouthPeriodsSkinsHotIllDefinedSmokingGood TimesSmoothMarvelousDopeHot DogBefore DeathSmooth Skin Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe
“In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.” IfsYearsHeartStillsFeelingsDifficultSidesPoorRoomsStreetsDogFieldsYouthSolitudeSpringTwentiesCornersFaithfulGet AwayLocksSavagesWoundedBrutesHerdsStags Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.” WayLongAnimalAliveGenerationsDogYouthTrainingInstinctForestsRememberedRanMeatPacksVagueDog TrainingPrimevalWild Dogs Book:Call of The Wild, White Fang Source: Call of The Wild, White Fang