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"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
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"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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"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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"We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters."
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"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."
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"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."
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"A child's giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold."
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"A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony."
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"You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there."
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"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."
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"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."
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"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."
Ability
"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
Fame
"Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow."
Morality
"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."
Time
"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
Marriage
"Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor."
Justice
"Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves."
Humor
"No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist."
Creativity
"You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought."
Thought
"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
Passion
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