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"Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us."
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"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."
"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
"Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved."
"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
"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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"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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