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At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.

~Christopher Buckley

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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

~Colm Toibin

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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: Because Boarding Boarding School Day Everyone Everything Gets High High School Hours Intense School Very You 24 Hours

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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: About Biology Boarding Boarding School Enough Experience Feelings Had Hundreds Only Pages Pigs School Smell Still Strong The Only Thing Thing Write I Can

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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Adjustment Age Anger Boarding Boarding School Early Early Age Eight Five Informs Latent Long Long Time Lot Loved Over People School Think Time Who Years You I Think

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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Age Army Being Boarding Boarding School Cope Emotion Emotionally Lot School Similar Suppress Teaches Way You Young Young Age

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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: About Age Boarding Boarding School Come Community Education Eight First Forged Friendships Furnace Kind Lifelong Little Living One Thing Out People Prep Retreat School Talk Teaches Then Thing Why You

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I'm from the Detroit area, just north of Detroit. But then I went to boarding school in northern Michigan, so a little bit colder up there. But beautiful, very beautiful.

~Dan Amboyer

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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

~Daniel Espinosa

Topics: Boarding Boarding School Changed Could Go Government Kids Old Part Prison Programme Richest School Sixteen Social Some Sweden Swedish Two Years

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I think boarding school does give you an independence.

~Deirdre O'Kane

Topics: Boarding Boarding School Does Give Independence School Think You I Think

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