"right now,I am my father"

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Source : Natasha Friend (2010). “Lush”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

Natasha Friend

“When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.”
“Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”, p.376
“If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isnâ€™t sending you the â€˜letâ€™s go back to my placeâ€™ signals. In that caseâ€”â€ â€œDonâ€™t go there, Bob. Letâ€™s just not go there.”
“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”
“What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.”
“An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.”
“The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is not surprising, since neither scientists nor philosophers can agree about what the consciousness of humans consists of, let alone that of animals.”

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