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"Babies do not want to hear about babies, they like to be told of giants and castles."
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"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."
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"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."
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"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."
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"The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic."
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"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."
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"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."
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"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."
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"I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood."
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"My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!"
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"When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can't be so, you don't get demons our side of the river, the guards won't let them over London Bridge."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
Truth
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
Happiness
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
Happiness
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
Life
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
Life
"I will be conquered; I will not capitulate."
Will
"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."
Life
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Knowledge
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
Battle
"The first years of man must make provision for the last."
Wisdom
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