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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Erica Jong
Maturity, Years, Sixteen

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Cormac McCarthy
Book, Sixteen, Freethinker
Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

Cassandra Clare
Forever, Sixteen, Seems
Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it.

Bubba Sparxxx
Writing, Sixteen, Outkast

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

Beau Garrett
Paris, Six Months, Sixteen
"Beau Garrett Is a Woman We Love". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2010.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

Annie Fellows Johnston
Wings, Sixteen, Youth
Annie Fellows Johnston (1914). “Mary Ware: The Little Colonel's Chum”, p.34, Pelican Publishing

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

Anais Nin
Moon, Sixteen, Firsts

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

Abby Sunderland
Eye, October, Sixteenth Birthday
Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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