"A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown."
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"Children are our greatest untapped resource."
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"Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives."
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"The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood"
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"Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood."
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"All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me."
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"Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone."
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"I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind."
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"Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be."
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"Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to."
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"I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood."
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"Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil."
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"Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now."
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"A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle."
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"Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play."
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"Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific."
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"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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"Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well."
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"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it."
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