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“The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.”
― Caroline Pratt, I Learn from Children

“It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.”
― Caroline Pratt, I Learn from Children

“The child, unhampered, does not waste time.”
― Caroline Pratt

“This was not the last time I was to spoil my own fun by asking questions.”
― Caroline Pratt, I Learn from Children

“Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.”
― Caroline Pratt

“There's nothing more useless than a mind filled with someone else's thoughts.”
― Laurie Gray

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you'll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. Even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope for something good to come along. Something to make you feel connected, to make you feel whole, to make you feel loved.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script

“There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script

“CLAIRE
I used to be a baby!

CADAN
I'm sorry.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script

“Don't add silence to your list of regrets.”
― Amanda Maciel, Tease