"Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you."

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Source : "The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss, 2005.

Nicole Krauss

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Mean Quotes

“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”
“It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.”
“I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.”
“Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.”
“It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.57, Library of America
“Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.”
“I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.”
“poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.”

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