"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."

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Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

James Merrill

#Communication Quotes #Parent Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.”

Source : Allen Tate (1967). “T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work”, London : Chatto & Windus
“I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.”
“Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.”
“Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.”

Source : Michel de Certeau, Steven Rendall (1988). “Arts de Faire”, p.190, Univ of California Press
“One thing we do well within evangelicalism is in thinking of Jesus as our friend. But He is also our King.”
“My fatherhood made me understand my parents and to honor them more for the love they gave. My sonhood was revealed to me in its own perfection and I understood the reason the Chinese so value filiality, the responsibility of the son to honor the parents.”
“I live in the moment, and I reflect later.”
“I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.”

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