Queer Youth

Famous quotes containing the words queer and/or youth:

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again—as I always am when I write.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)