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"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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"That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes without saying; but we shall do more than this - we shall give them a free start, not loading them up with our own ideas and experiences, nor advising them to live according to our lights. We were burned in the fire here and there, but - who knows? - fire may not burn our children, and if we warn them away from it they may end by never growing warm. We will not even inflict our cynicism on them as the sentimentality of our fathers was inflicted on us. The most we will do is urge a little doubt, asking that the doubt be exercised on our ideas as well as on all the mortal things in this world."
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"We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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"Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people."
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"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."
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"Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages."
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"Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower."
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"Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt."
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"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
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"I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing."
Adventure
"It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army."
War
"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
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"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
Family
"I loved all the world's mythologies."
World
"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
Books
"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."
Family
"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."
Love
"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."
Friendship
"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."
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