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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
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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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"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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"We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them."
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"I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time."
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"The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on."
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"I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?"
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"Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your causal gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children."
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"Luis is right there. I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard animals. I have yet to inform him that talent isn't as much of a chick magnet when you get into junior high."
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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
Myth
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
Imagination
"Everything we do has consequences."
Consequence
"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
People
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
Age
"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
Poetry
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
Criticism
"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."
God
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
Act
"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
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