"My grandfather and I were very close."

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Tea Obreht

#Grandfather Quotes #My Grandfather Quotes

“We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.”

Source : "The Future as History". Book by Robert Heilbroner (Chapter IV, Part 9, The Grand Dynamic of History, p. 209), 1960.
“Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.”
“Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.”
“I had a very old woman come up to me on the subway and tell me that the faces that I made in the first episode when a guy is going down on me, that she still makes those faces when her husband goes down on her.”
“Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.”
“In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.”
“Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( Elf the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )”
“The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.”

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