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"All things truly wicked start from innocence."
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"The blessedness of being little!!!"
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"There's a bit of kitten in all of us."
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"Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: "Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful!" At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice: "Am I, love?"
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"Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets itin its constellation, and gives the measureof distance into its hand? Who makes a child's deathout of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves itinside its round mouth like the coreof a shining apple? Killers areeasy to grasp. But this: death,the whole of death, before life,to hold it so softly, and not live in anger,cannot be expressed."
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"...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him..."
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"The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted."
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"When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!"
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"We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back."
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"Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."
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"It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile."
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"To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."
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"It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945."
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"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
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"Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters."
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"World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought."
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"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
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"Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself."
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"Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave."
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"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
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"Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home."
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