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Tommy Rettig

"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."

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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"

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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

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"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

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"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."

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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

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"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

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"Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about."

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"Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent."

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"It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?"

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Tommy Rettig
"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists."

Business

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Tommy Rettig
"Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure."

Friendship

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Tommy Rettig
"My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon."

Death

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Tommy Rettig
"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."

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Tommy Rettig
"Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?"

Life

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Tommy Rettig
"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education."

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Tommy Rettig
"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."

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Tommy Rettig
"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."

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Tommy Rettig
"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."

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Tommy Rettig
"It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection."

Life

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