"Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats."

-- Gerald Durrell

#Mother Quotes #Uncles Quotes #Cat Quotes

“Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.”
“No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”
“Without game, men prey on each other.”
“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”

Source : Raymond Daum, Raymond W. Daum, Greta Garbo (1992). “Walking with Garbo: conversations and recollections”, Perennial
“Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.”
“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.”
“The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.”

Source : "Evolving From Control to Connection Parenting". Interview with Allison Sutter, www.chicagonow.com. October 13, 2015.
“love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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