"As a child, reality is whatever one..." - Quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce
As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.
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“Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.”
“We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.”
“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”
More on Childhood
“There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.”
“I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.”
“I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.”
More on Reality
“The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.”
“This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.”
“Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.”