"The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this."

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P. J. O'Rourke

#Dad Quotes #Real Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?”
“I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.”
“Sri Krishnamacharya used to tell me: 'Do the Headstand when you are tired and in need of a tonic; when you are unable to fall asleep; when you are hungry, nervous and unhappy. Do it when in need of relaxation, when the brain is clouded, when you are in low spirits. Do it when your thoughts are distracted and you cannot concentrate properly or meditate.'”
“There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.”
“Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.”
“The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.”
“What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?...”
“No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.”

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