Seventeen Quotes

• When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

  Max Lerner

  Teenage, Serious, Adolescence

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• I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

  Eric Bogosian

  Knows, Idealistic, Inadequate

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• It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thought Provoking, Youth, Wonderful

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.181, RosettaBooks

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• I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Sixteen, Sometimes

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teenager, Twenties, Seven

  "Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 142, 1957.

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• And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Kissing, Doubt, Slim

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• You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

  Cassandra Clare

  Magnus Bane, Said

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• How old are you?” she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. “Seventeen.” “And how long have you been seventeen?” I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. “A while,” I admitted. “Okay,” she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Answers, Tone

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• You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Plot, Want

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• My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Smart, Years, Names

  Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Men, Years

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

  Jean Rhys

  Change, People, Different

  Jean Rhys, Francis Wyndham, Diana Melly (1984). “The letters of Jean Rhys”, Viking Adult

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• Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Skin Tone, Skins, Body

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• you've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Thinking, Wish, Desire

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• I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."

  Sarah Silverman

  Song, New York, Guy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Should Have, Yards, Impatience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.235, Penguin

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• He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.

  Jude Deveraux

  Sexy, Stars, Children

  Jude Deveraux (2012). “Sweet Liar”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

  Molly Ringwald

  Magazines, Excited, Bigger

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• I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Reason, Hundred, Convince

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• I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Girl, Years, Brain

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• But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Dumb, Busy, Persons

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.42, Macmillan

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• There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

  John Green

  Sexy, Names, Voice

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Thinking, Irritation

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.62, Scholastic UK

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• Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Sad Things

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