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The children were there, unannounced, unapologized for; young children, still fresh from the impropriety of birth.

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Children like change — for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

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The children worked on each other like two indestructible pieces of sand-paper.

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Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

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Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Born: June 7, 1899
Died: February 22, 1973 (aged 73)
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