"Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Roots Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.”
“If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.”
“Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.”
“I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.”
“Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can be based on very simple ideas, but it's all in the making, isn't it? It's in the facture.”
“The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan
“I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.”
“A good man never fights with a woman.”

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