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childhood

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

childhood

At age 10 or 12 he’s going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

childhood

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

childhood

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

childhood

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that’s basically what I’ve been doing since I was a kid.

childhood

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

childhood

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

childhood

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

childhood

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

childhood

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

childhood