"sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children."

-- Maria Edgeworth

#Children Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1950). “Vaudeville for a princess, and other poems”
“No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.”
“Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?”

Source : Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus (2009). “Nanny Returns: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
“I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.”
“It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors, or historians, or C.E.O.'s or whatnot, and I thought, Maybe I want to be a writer.”
“There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.”

Source : "Amanda Peet returns to television". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.
“I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.”
“In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.”

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