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#1

“I am content in knowing I am as brave as any best that ever lived, if not braver.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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#2

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning

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#3

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince

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#4

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
― Fred Rogers

tags: children, heroes, heroism

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#5

“Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”
― Russell Brand

tags: children, conformity, glory, rebellion

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#6

“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: children, education, fair-play, injustice, punishment

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#7

“Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, siblings

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#8

“But happy moments came rarely and unexpectedly in the Baudelaires' lives, and the three siblings had learned to accept them.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

tags: a-series-of-unfortunate-events, lemony-snicket

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#9

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth

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#10

“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: birds, joy, youth

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#11

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents

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#12

“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

tags: brains, experience, knowledge

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#13

“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

tags: children, parents

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#14

“God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: bully, children, mean, pugnacious, revenge, standards

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#15

“Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: civilization

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#16

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: imagination, inspiration, margaret-langstaff, risk, writing

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#17

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#18

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#19

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#20

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#21

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

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#22

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

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#23

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: monsters

1129 likes

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#24

“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, king, on-writing, stephen-king

662 likes

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#25

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
― Stephen King

tags: art-on-writing

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#26

“We all float down here!”
― Stephen King, It

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#27

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

tags: carrie, changing, king, learning, stephen

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#28

“Jesus watches from the wall,
But his face is cold as stone,
And if he loves me
As she tells me
Why do I feel so all alone?”
― Stephen King, Carrie

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