"When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes."

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Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Solomon

#Hero Quotes #Dragons Quotes

“I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.”

Source : "Teri Hatcher Tells Vanity Fair She Was Sexually Abused as a Child". abcnews.go.com. March 8, 2006.
“But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.”

Source : Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.432, Hal Leonard Corporation
“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.”
“In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.”
“You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.”
“Striving can be more important than arriving.”
“He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.”

Source : "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.
“The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.”

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