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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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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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