“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”
Pt. 1, Ch. 5
Christine (1983)
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know:

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