John Thompson Parker

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    “We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our own childhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “People Who Do things exceed my endurance;
    God, for a man that solicits insurance!”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)