“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”

—  Tom Stoppard

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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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