"I was an only child. I needed..." - Quote by John Updike
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.
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“...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”
“Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.”
“Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.”
More on Childhood
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
“When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.”
“As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.”
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“But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]”
“The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.”
“I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.”