Confessions of a Spent Youth Quotes

“She had the look, I thought, of the girls who leave high school junior year to clerk in dime stores in the South; huskily spoken, attractive, a little sharp, a little cheap, and, to a man of my reading, properly sordid as a supporting character in the experience I was about to collect.”
― Vance Bourjaily, Confessions of a Spent Youth: A Novel

“the Don tried to achieve gallantry, and was ludicrous. I tried to achieve sordidness and loss and was instead pleased, self-satisfied—if there was loss it was not my own.”
― Vance Bourjaily, Confessions of a Spent Youth: A Novel

“I was about as well prepared for sex as Don Quixote was for knighthood, and my methods of preparation resembled his quite a little; both of us tried to learn from books. We made the same mistake too, of course, thinking that life and literature would be alike.”
― Vance Bourjaily, Confessions of a Spent Youth: A Novel