Kenneth Rexroth Quote

The characteristic paranoias of youth — the attribution of intention and duplicity to almost all human behavior. The young suffer terribly from the belief that the people they encounter are most of them up to something and that something has some relation to themselves. Actually, of course, most people just bobble along like apples in a stream. Usually it takes many years of experience to realize this.

Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (p. 102) - More Classics Revisited (1989)