It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
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Zum Autor"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about."
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
"My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight."
"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."
"...If you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'."