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"A child is child."
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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
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"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."
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"Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!"
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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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"For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?"
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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
Home
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
Old
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
Family
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
Fool
"To shipbrokers, coal was black gold."
Gold
"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
Boys
"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
"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
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