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“I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.”

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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

Frederick Buechner

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