“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”
Source: The Palace of Illusions
Misattributed
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.
“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”
Source: The Palace of Illusions
“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
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.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 22
“You become hard when you carry out such orders.”
To Leon Goldensohn, April 8, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004