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Blanche Wiesen Cook

"Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father."

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Blanche Wiesen Cook

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.”
“If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.”
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
“Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance”
“When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.”
“I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating.”
“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”

Source : M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks
“I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small fisherman's hut from the beginning of the last century. That's where I sit down and do the actual writing. I might write for 16 hours a day or something. That's how it happens.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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