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“I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.”

Children Persons Ideas Moments Wanted Company Taken Childhood Stupidity Endless Hated Grownups

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.”

Book Waiting Behinds Childhood Sitting Hated Adulthood

Author:Anne Tyler

“Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.”

Children Age Grows Growing Up Childhood Cry Baby Behavior Increase Hated Geese Nephew Niece

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

“For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.”

Writing Made Book Stories Night Waiting Dark My Own Sleep Behinds Childhood Sitting Hated Ran Adulthood Made Up Stories

Author:Anne Tyler

“Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.”

People Chance Cases Childhood Materials Victory Newspapers Hated Injury Articles Dogma Remarks Inadequate Scrap Edifice Small Victories

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.”

Whole Childhood Hated

Author:Sandra Bullock