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• I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be all right.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

  Joseph Heller

  Kids, Voice, Cold

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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• Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

  Karel Appel

  Art, Play, Childhood

  "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.

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• I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Wedding, Crazy, Nuts

  "Wedding Cakes: Designer Ron Ben Israel Talks Money-Saving Tricks, Fresh Flavor Ideas, and More!" by Meredith Bodgas, www.glamour.com. July 19, 2010.

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• Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.

  Eoin Colfer

  Wind, Voice, Waiting

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Stupid, Creativity

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• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Rain, Eye

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.

  Julie Isphording

  Running, Determination, Fun

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• Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

  Claire Bloom

  Men, Stoic

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• If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that he has not achieved. Once you have some inner experiences of your own you become very playful, you become very innocent, childlike.

  Rajneesh

  Saint, Impossible, Innocent

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• The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder. They breathed. German and Jewish lungs.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Sweet, Wall

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.177, Random House

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• To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

  Ernest Becker

  Fun, Men, Play

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• Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

  Federico Fellini

  Wise, Unique, Vivid

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• The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.

  Susan Faludi

  Voice, Forever, Body

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• [John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Simple, Men

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 4

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• The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Understanding, World

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.64, Temple University Press

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• My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know that this will give Me great joy. I answered, But You know about everything, Lord." And Jesus replied to me, "Yes I do know; but you should not excuse yourself with the fact that I know, but with childlike simplicity talk to Me about everything, for my ears and heart are inclined towards you, and your words are dear to Me.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Daughter, Jesus, Prayer

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• Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Giving Up, Heart, Numbers

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• Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

  Mehmet Oz

  Inspirational Life, Passion, Enthusiasm

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• The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike tragedy. The first time I was on a stage, it wasn't even a music concert. It was a magic show. That being said, the life I lead now isn't what you would call 'destiny'.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Destiny, Magic

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• You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

  John F. MacArthur

  Faith, Thinking, Childlike Faith

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• The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Children, Best Teacher

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Mean, Desire, Dimensions

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• I'm very curious and being childlike
  is vital in our industry

  Paul Smith

  Curious, Industry

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• Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

  L. J. Smith

  Hurt, Stars, Taken

  L J Smith (2010). “Nightfall”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they catch you failing to laugh with childlike wonder, they lock you inside a costume representing a beloved Disney character such as Goofy and make you walk about in the Florida heat getting grabbed and leaped on by violently excited children until you have learned your lesson.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Children, Humor

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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