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• The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we… — John le Carre
• Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing… — Judith Viorst
• Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one… — Henry Edward Manning
• Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it… — Vincent Canby
• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. — Robert Breault
• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood,… — Natasha Richardson
• We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was… — Michael Morpurgo
• We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. — Harville Hendrix
• We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert
• Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder,… — Doug Henning
• No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust
• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it.… — Alice Miller

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