"A father is a man who fails every day."

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Source : Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.7, Harper Collins

Michael Chabon

#Fathers Day Quotes #Father Quotes #Men Quotes

“If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.”
“States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.”
“In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.”
“I can't grow a moustache.”
“And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.”
“Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.”
“My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.”
“If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.”

Source : "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.

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