"Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own."

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Source : Charles Sheehan-Miles (2012). “A Song for Julia”, p.158, Cincinnatus Press

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Follow your dreams.No matter what”
“I love having other people sing my songs.”
“I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of the job, that you're in this very intense moment in someone's life - you're engaging with them nonstop - and then suddenly your piece is out and that's done. It always reminds me that the journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, that can definitely seem like such a strange, extractive relationship.”
“The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.”
“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
“There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things...”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”
“They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.”
“And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?”

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