"Infants are interesting only to their parents."

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Source : Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

Marya Mannes

#Interesting Quotes #Parent Quotes #Infant Quotes

“Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.”
“Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?”
“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
“There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.”
“The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.”
“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.”
“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”
“I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.”

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