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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."
Explore more quotes by Patty Duke
"When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days."
"For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless."
"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
"I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature."
"If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient."
"The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up."
"The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death."
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