"I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to get it back is for your children to die. And, you know, monks don't have families."

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Source : "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

Larkin Grimm

#Children Quotes #Soul Quotes #Way Quotes

“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.”
“Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.”
“We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.”
“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books
“If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.”
“Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”

Source : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
“Some people would like me to be round again.”
“I grew up a massive Beatles fan.”

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