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Childhood Quote by Paula Fox

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“I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.”

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My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

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People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

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You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

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“I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels.…

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I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage…

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“Words are nets through which all truth escapes ("News From The World")”

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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

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Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge…

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“Imagination is conjunctive and unifying; the sour, habitual wars of the self are disjunctive and separating. When I begin a story at my desk,…

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If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it…

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A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere…

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“You’ll see some bad things, but if you didn’t see them, they’d still be happening so you might as well.”

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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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When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a…

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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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It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.…

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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…

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the…

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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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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

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