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"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."
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"I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love."
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"If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love."
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"First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see."
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"Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account."
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"Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example."
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"There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this."
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"For parents, it is important to respect the personality of a child."
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"Children can be told anything-anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anything, though they understand everything. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."
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"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
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"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."
Heroism
"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
War
"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
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"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
Family
"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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"I loved all the world's mythologies."
World
"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."
Friendship
"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
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"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."
Family
"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."
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