"Could we betray our parents by going back to them?"

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Karen Russell

#Parent Quotes #Betray Quotes

“In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.”
“Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.”
“My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.”
“I always admire people who have passion.”
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

Source : Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.”
“After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.”
“I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.”

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