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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
"My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!"
"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."
"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."
"There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
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