"In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit."

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Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

Charles Buxton

#Home Quotes #Irritation Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.”
“When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.”
“My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.”
“Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.”
“Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."”
“He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.”
“Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.”
“In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.”

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