"When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent."

-- Mordecai Richler

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Dad Quotes

“I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.”
“When truth is divided, errors multiply.”
“I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.”
“I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.”
“Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.”

Source : Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts
“Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.”
“I’m getting maximum enjoyment out of life and I’ll never stop.”

Source : "One Life to Live: McConkey Film Premieres at Squaw Valley" by Tim Sohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.

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