"It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals."

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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

John Green, American Author

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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Childhood, Happiness, Love, Truth, Wisdom

"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?"

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"

"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."

"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."

"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

"Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about."

"Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent."

"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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"What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends."

"I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor."

"Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense."

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"You see, I was the son of a baptist minister."

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