“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
Source: The Palace of Illusions
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
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Source: Abraham Sutzkever (born 1913), quoted in "Yiddish Poet Celebrates Life with His Language" by Joseph Berger, The New York Times (1985-03-17), Section 1, page 38.
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Karen White (1964) American writer
Source: The Memory of Water
“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
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The New York Times, March 1, 1981. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/bainbridge-tenth.html
“Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“You become hard when you carry out such orders.”
Rudolf Höss (1901–1947) German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
To Leon Goldensohn, April 8, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
