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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

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I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

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Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

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Kids are so shrewd.

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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

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We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

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I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: June 10th, 1928

Died: May 8th, 2012

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