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I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wro...more

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That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you e...more

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Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget ...more

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It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü

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And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

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I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested optio...more

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I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children’s books hidden in the mid...more

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I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappoin...more

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I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...

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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, ...more

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I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they alw...more

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Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths