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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. – Herbert Gold

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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. – Herbert Gold

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And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at…. – Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. – Tom Stoppard

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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow

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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container. – Bill Bryson

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I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. – Quentin Crisp

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