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“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.”

Years Childhood Analysis Breasts Feds

Author:Woody Allen

“A babe is fed with milk and praise.”

Childhood Praise Feds Milk Babe

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?”

Fall Father Born Cutting Sky Childhood Planets Our Children Holes Feds Dolls

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.”

Real Feelings Kids Remember Felt Seeing Streets Childhood My Friends Versions Smoke Feds Swear Cigarette Spoons Refreshing Sesame Street Stand By Me

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Natural Wife Childhood Tales Fairy Feds Fairy Tale Geography Fairytale Fables Natural History

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.”

World Quality Childhood Cost Adults Ill Mysterious Substance Feds Heroic Brutal Inquisition Airy

Book:The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)

Source: The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)

“After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.”

Want Fear Sea Childhood Rocks Independence Lifetime Medical Selfish Confusion Chairs Feds Terrified Helplessness Reduction Intervals Poke

Author:Rosie Thomas

“Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.”

Whole Song Childhood Caught Clubs Pops Myth Versions Magazines Therapy Buying Feds Our Love Santa Pathetic Joining Santa Claus Chimneys Pop Song

Author:Meg Ryan

“My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think”

Thinking Way Might Actors Decision Childhood Feds Nomadic

Author:Josh Lucas