"I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together"
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"O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!"
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"The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood."
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"The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices."
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"Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London."
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"Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid."
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"The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension."
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"If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across."
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"I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age."
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"I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down."
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"A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work."
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"Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis"
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"Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood."
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"Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute."
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"Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought."
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"Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?"
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"I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art."
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"I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain."
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"War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so."
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"My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway."
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