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Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Began Career Century Chechnya Childhood Final First Forms He His Northern Novel Set Tolstoy War While Writing 19Th Century

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I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Always Better Better Off Childhood Childhoods Great Had More Off Think Twisted Writers I Think

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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Actually Arrival Book Books Childhood Concentration Family France Her How Influences Marie Some Start Surprising

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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

~Arabella Weir

Topics: Abroad Because Childhood Entire Father Flights Living Occupation Spent Time Were

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When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

~Ariel Sharon

Topics: Arabs Born Childhood Day Farms Here Israel Living Never One Day Thought Together Will I Was Born

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My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood.

~Armaan Malik

Topics: Been Childhood Familiar Language Mother Since Telugu

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After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.

~Arnon Goldfinger

Topics: Abroad Across After Away Berlin Camera Childhood Ending Feeling Felt Flat Going Grandmother Her Knew Like Passed Real Take Traveling Up Urge

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The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

~Art Linkletter

Topics: Adolescence Childhood Four Infancy Man Obsolescence Stages

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'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.

~Arthur Penn

Topics: Blows Childhood Like Me Much My Own Own Really Stunned

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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

~Arthur Rimbaud

Topics: Childhood Genius Recovery Will

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