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“There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.”

Together Groups Childhood Time Together

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.”

Ifs Spirit Groups Childhood Holy Rose Drinking Rounds Bees Repose Moths Gnats Vapour

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.”

People Past Lying Groups Childhood Circles Settling Shakes Globes Looking Back Transparent Embedded Settling Down Weaving

Book:The ballad and the source

Source: The ballad and the source

“Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?”

“Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.”

Groups Childhood Training Notion Excellent Obsessed Belonging Happy Childhood Not Belonging Belonging To A Group

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.”

Life Years Firsts Book Home Next Wonderful Groups Share Childhood Television Training Program Hollywood Theater Memoir Phases Good Friend Arrivals Formative Years

Author:Julie Andrews

“All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.”

Stills Today Nice Groups Childhood Mets My Friends Core Really Nice Childhood Friend

Author:Rachel Bilson

“I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.”

Feels Feelings Together Desire Strong Groups Childhood Position Comfortable Longing Incredibles Outsiders Strong Feeling

Author:Lily King

“My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.”

“With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.”

Knows Writing Book Age Remember Young Term Memories My Own Groups Childhood Incredibles Telling The Truth

Author:Judy Blume