"Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen â€” or better still, talk â€” that their parents were just as bad."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Men Quotes

“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.”
“Virtue is not hereditary.”
“Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.”
“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”
“If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare.”
“Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?”
“Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.”

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