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I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky...more

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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

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William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

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. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday live...more

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Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

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