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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

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

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

I don’t think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.