"Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Beryl Bainbridge

#Childhood Quotes #Grows Quotes

“The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.”
“What parents teach is themselves, as models of what is human - by their moods, their reactions, their facial expressions and actions. These are the real things parents need to be aware of, and of how they affect their children. Allow them to know you, and it might become easier for them to learn about themselves.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
“Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.”
“I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.”
“If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.”
“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”
“I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble. You're looking where the line is and seeing how much you can step over it, and I mean, I do that in my personal life, too. I try to anger and piss people off a little bit to try to see what I can get away with. I got in trouble with more than one cartoon.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes - can help anybody get any better or worse at it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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