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Childhood Quote by Ben Okri

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“Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”

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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

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Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

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“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult…

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“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common…

Edgar Allan Poe

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We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.…

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Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Giacomo Leopardi

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Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now…

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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

Samantha Morton

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Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing…

Swami Vivekananda

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