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"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."
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"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."
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"A child is child."
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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."
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"Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I'd never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, 'He brings little angels like you, presents."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
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"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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"Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
Christian
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
Politics
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
Truth
"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all."
Fear
"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."
Happiness
"Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."
Truth
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
Life
"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour."
Life
"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
Fool
"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."
Man
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