As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

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Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

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People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

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A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

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The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

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