Quote by Louise Bogan
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a h

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. – Louise Bogan

Other quotes by Louise Bogan

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. – Louise Bogan

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Women
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. – Louise Bogan

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Intelligence
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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. – Louise Bogan

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Language
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Other Quotes from
Youth
category

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, thats now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. – Conrad Aiken

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Youth

Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

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Youth

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Youth

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos

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Youth

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People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie… you know, we didnt always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day. – Faith Evans

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