Source: The Color Purple
Source: When the Snow Fell
“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child”
A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
Context: Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
"An Unread Book," introduction to The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (Holt, Rinehart, 1965 edition)
General sources
“In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.”
To Leon Goldensohn, March 1, 1946, after Goldensohn asks Ohlendorf, "How did you figure a six month old Jewish infant must be killed - was it an enemy? Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)
“If the child was helpless, was the grown up person, man or woman, in a much better position?”
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IV, "Laissez - Faire", p. 46.
“Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up.”
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 3
“I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”
“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
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