"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."

-- Douglass North

#Sister Quotes #Brother Quotes #Father Quotes

“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
“In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.”
“My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thoughtâ€”he is one with itâ€”and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.”

Source : The Broken Cord ch. 14 (1989)
“Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to them that we are willing to live lives which are less dependent on fossil fuels and we'll show you that now by changing our individual life to some extent but we want you to take action, political leaders, so that we aren't living in a society in which we're dependent on poisoning the future in order to maintain present lifestyles.”
“Iâ€™m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.”
“I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.”
“There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.”
“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.”

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