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The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it befor...more

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Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from...more

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At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt toast! My favorite!' and he'd eat...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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Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in eve...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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What you remembered? Probably. More or less. Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the ...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 do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

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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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But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.

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Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real,...more

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I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

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Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

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Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way ...more