"(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama."

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Anne Tyler

#Drama Quotes #Parenting Quotes #Broken Quotes

“People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.”
“What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That canâ€™t be mass marketed.”
“If you can't you must, and if you must you can.”
“But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.”
“I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.”
“And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing." "Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie. "You being on that platform changed mine.”
“Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters...”

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