#childhood

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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

— Maurice Sendak

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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ↗

— John Stamos

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. ↗

— Amy Tan

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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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