“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.” YearsImportantMatterProcessInterestSupportLearningPiecesAliveChildhoodMiddleSubjectsParticularSkillsFindingsTechniqueRelatedGlowingSubject Matter Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff.” PeopleWritingStuffImaginationPartyNovelAliveChildhoodInvisibleGroceries Author:David Foster Wallace
“A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.” FeelsSometimesCertainEmotionAliveChildhoodResourcesWho You ArePainfulConstructsJoyous Author:Edward Hirsch
“I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.” FirstsHas BeensI CanAgeConsciousnessAliveChildhoodOffersCommitmentIdealsSticksLibertarianCompromiseFeaturesRevolutionaryNot InterestedTrapsAssuranceKill MeMarxistRedeemingNever Compromise Author:Murray Bookchin
“I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.” MomentsAliveChildhoodOccasionsAwakeJoyousComa Author:John Lydon
“So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.” IfsChildrenLittlesStillsBigsCareRunningLeftDifferencesPoorAliveChildhoodAdultsSkinsLeavingDon't CareKneesGoing AwayBurnedHumiliationMorbid Author:Andrea Dworkin
“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.” LooksPersonsStillsSometimesEyeDiesKnowingAliveImagineSeeingChildhoodGoes OnDiedRecognizing Book:A Scanner Darkly Source: A Scanner Darkly
“A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others." And he was not befooled, so others had to crucify him, because he was not part of the game. Socrates had to be poisoned and killed, Mansoor had to be murdered. These are people who have escaped from the prison, and whatsoever you say you cannot persuade them to come back. They will not come into the prison. They have known the freedom of the open sky.” PeopleMenGamesJesusChristKnownAliveSkyChildhoodJesus ChristPrison Author:Rajneesh
“The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky...Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike.” WayLifeFeelsChildrenPersonsLastsLosesWonderAliveSkyChildhoodFlowerBirdIntelligentBreathsChildlikeIntelligent Person Author:Rajneesh
“I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.” TryingAliveChildhoodAwarenessFatherhoodObsessiveIndustrious Author:Edna O'Brien