“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

— Bill Cosby

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American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activ… 1937

Ralph Smart

“Through play, we renew contact with childhood - My art is childlike.”

Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet

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“In my childhood years, I dreamt of being a footballer. But as my friends often joke, they tried to take the ball in an unsportsmanlike way... which is how I became a boxer.”

Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician

2008
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“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes (1996)

“Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

"A Factless Autobiography", number 3, tr. by Richard Zenith
The Book of Disquiet

“I treat my audience like my friends. Whatever information I feel I would love to share with a friend, I will share the same on my social platforms, especially if it is content that will add value to my audience.”

Sisi Yemmie (1984) Nigerian Youtuber

Source: https://guardian.ng/life/spotlight/sisi-yemmie-the-inspirational-vlogger/ Sir yemmie speaking at an interview.

“We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

"Hating Sweden" (1989).
1990s, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (1993)

“Even when I was a kid, my imaginary friend would play with the kid across the street. I'd be like, "Hey, so I guess I'll see you later," and he's, like, "Whatever, queer."”

Daniel Tosh (1975) American stand-up comedian

That's a hate crime!
Comedy Central Presents: Daniel Tosh (2003)

“I continue to find appealing the sentiment of a left-wing song that I learned in my childhood, which begins as follows: "If we should consider each other, a neighbor, a friend, or a brother, it could be a wonderful, wonderful world, it could be a wonderful world."”

Gerald Cohen (1941–2009) Canadian philosopher

III. Is the Ideal Desirable?
Why Not Socialism? (2009)

“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

Quoted in Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L.M. (1972; digitized 2006), p. 178. L.M. was Lesley Morris, the pseudonym of Mansfield's friend Ida Baker.

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

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