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"It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?"
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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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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
Science
"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
Communication
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
Science
"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin. Again the pause. 'Oh d-'And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited."
Humor
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
Life
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
Family
"Time is bunk."
Time
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
Money
"Life is wasted on the living."
Life
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
Time
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