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“It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.”

Moments Wisdom Spirituality Childhood Late Mindfulness Solutions Programming Too Late Present Moment Genes Never Too Late Spiritual Awareness Previous Life

Author:Peter Shepherd

“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.”

Way Littles Long I Can Moments Light Running Lasts Remember Film Rooms Childhood Wall Details Smell Wander Landscape Long Ago Hung Scrap

Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

“I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.”

Moments Childhood Painful Torture Brushes Amusement Painful Moments

Author:Aisha Tyler

“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

“Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.”

Knows Writing Moments Fiction Childhood Particular Normal Unusual Life Experience Bizarre Strangeness

Author:Kelly Link

“I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”

World Humans Children Long Real Moments Born Human Beings Childhood Our Children Treated Sufficient Real World

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

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

“A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.”

Way Children Two Book Moments Would Be Reading Existence Forever Childhood Distraction Layers Pointless Literal Inaccessible

Author:Marguerite Duras

“Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.”

Wells Moments Actors Childhood Ships Skip Lollipop

Author:Joan Crawford

“my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.”

Looks Moments Lasts Childhood Grew Lows Tired Flats

Author:Tove Ditlevsen