"A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world."

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Source : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

Helen Rowland

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“Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.”
“Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age.”
“A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.”
“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.”
“What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.”

Source : thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.126
“For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country - he should be labeled as: "Author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country."”
“You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.”

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