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“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”
― Lullabies for Little Criminals
― Lullabies for Little Criminals
“Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.”
― The War Poems
― The War Poems
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
― Summertime
― Summertime
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