"I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that it's a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he's a child and everything is new, which seems more honest."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Blake Butler

#Mom Quotes #Children Quotes #Dad Quotes

“This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.”
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
“The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.”
“I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.”

Source : "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.
“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”
“Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.”
“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”
“I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.”

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