Home » Quote » H.L. Mencken » „Genius: the ability to prolong one’s childhood.“ „Genius: the ability to prolong one’s childhood.“ — H.L. Mencken Tags:Childhood Related quotes „Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.“ — Arthur Rimbaud „After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.“ — Mary Oliver „One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.“ — Agatha Christie „Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.“ — F. Scott Fitzgerald