"How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies."
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"In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy."
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"I gave up my childhood for a career."
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"In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much."
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"Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?"
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"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."
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"Childhood is messy and beautiful."
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"Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood."
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"My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories."
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"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."
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"My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely."
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"Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'"
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"When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under."
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
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"Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood."
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"Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good."
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"The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues."
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"I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood."
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"Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
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"In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed."
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