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Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

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The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between e...more

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Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in th...more

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No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.

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The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

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Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.