"All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments."

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Source : Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.53, Faber & Faber

Sarah Hall

#Children Quotes #Law Quotes #Layers Quotes

“Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.”
“Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.”
“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”
“The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.”
“Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.”
“One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'”
“A society that puts equality â€” in the sense of equality of outcome â€” ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.”
“Iâ€™ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.”

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