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“Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.”

Children Book Brother Imaginary Only Child Eldest

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”

Children Book Wanted Imagination My Own Company Lonely Imaginary Solitary Books And Movies Lonely Child

Book:Screening history

Source: Screening history

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.”

Firsts Children Littles Real Alive Danger Consequence Victim Medicine Terror Medical Imaginary Fashionable

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.”

World Kind May Mean Children Has Beens Facts Use Might Suffering Lost Deals Brain Childhood Taught Disease Training Appreciate Ruins Imaginary Might Have Been

Author:Lyman Abbott