"Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him."

-- Paul Laffoley

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.”
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”

Source : "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
“Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.”
“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”

Source : "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.
“You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.”
“Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.”
“The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art”
“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.30, Penguin

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