"You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent."

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Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “EIGHT PLUS ONE: STORIES”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Robert Cormier

#Children Quotes #Independent Quotes #Self Quotes

“We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did things like, we'd all go over to the Fort Belvedere in Florence and take that thing over. Because it's up for grabs, you can rent it. And then have New Age meetings and all that kind of stuff. [Buckminster] Fuller loved to go there.”
“Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.”
“What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.”
“Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.”
“And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?”
“How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.”
“Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.”

Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“The only power you have is the word no”

Source : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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