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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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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
Television
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor
"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work
"That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness."
Vision
"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
Work
"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
Children
"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
Ideal
"Everything we do has consequences."
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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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"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."
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"We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters."
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"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."
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"The great cathedral space which was childhood."
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"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."
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"A child's giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold."
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"A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony."
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"You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there."
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"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."
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