"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."

Childhood, Influence

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"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

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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 great cathedral space which was childhood."

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

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