"The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different."

-- Marie Winn

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“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.262, Macmillan
“Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.”

Source : Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”
“She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.”
“If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.”

Source : "My year of living without money" by Mark Boyle, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2009.
“All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.”
“A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.”
“I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.”
“And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.”

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