"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has." ― Anita Brookner Topic(s): Freedom More From Anita Brookner "Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy." "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything." "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society." More In Freedom "Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it."― Langston Hughes "That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."― Anish Kapoor "Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who ‘hate freedom’. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values."― Peter Singer