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childhood

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens to you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags childhood, existence, perception

“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”

-Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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tags change, childhood

“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”

-Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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tags bravery, iconic, war

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