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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply."
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"When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness."
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"Don't try to make me grow up before my time."
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"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."
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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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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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"She'd struck Esk once before " the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life."
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"Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever."
Childhood
"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
People
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
Old
"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
War
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
Fool
"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
Life
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
Nation
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man
"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
Family
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