"A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions."

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Karen Russell

#Feelings Quotes #Generations Quotes #Picnics Quotes

“The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.”
“Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.”
“We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.”
“Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.”
“I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.”

Source : "Paddy Considine: 'Making this film felt like an exorcism'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
“What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.”

Source : Patricia Gaffney (2004). “Circle of Three”
“The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.”
“Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.”

Source : Rae Foley (1976). “Put out the light”, Dodd Mead

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