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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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