"Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?"

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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2007). “The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner”

A. E. Hotchner

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“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House
“To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe Gideon". "All That Jazz", www.imdb.com. December 16, 1979.
“I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.”
“Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.
“That's my girl," he murmured. "I'm not your girl." "Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that the honey gave you back your sparkling personality." "And the bad news?" "The honey gave you back your sparkling personality.”
“I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically”
“In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.”

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