"It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception."

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Source : 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' (1964) act 3

Joe Orton

#Children Quotes #Dad Quotes

“We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.”
“The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.”
“I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.”

Source : The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.
“I think there was always something that everybody wishes they could relive in high school.”
“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.”

Source : Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”
“The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.”
“Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.”
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”

Source : I Capture the Castle (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3

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