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“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”

“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.”

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Author:Lillian Hellman

“I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“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.”

“What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.”

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Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.”

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Author:Graham Norton

“I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

“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

“(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.”

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”

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Book:The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

Source: The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

“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

“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

“My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.”

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Author:Paula Danziger