#childhood

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives—as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

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I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined. ↗

— Julian Cope

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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life. ↗

— Daniel Craig

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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

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That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. ↗

— Dave Matthes

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I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood. ↗

— Neal Cassady

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. ↗

— Tre Cool

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