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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.”

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Author:Sue Grafton

“To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.”

“I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.”

“That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”

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Author:Brian Aldiss

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

Source: On Reading

“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”

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Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”

Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

“A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.”

“(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.”

“Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.”

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Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.”

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Author:Brian Aldiss

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”

“People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.”

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Author:John le Carre

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

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris