"I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems."

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Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

David Sheff

#Mean Quotes #Difficult Times Quotes #Problem Quotes

“humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.”
“Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.”

Source : "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.
“By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.”
“One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.”
“The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.”
“The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.”
“I love my fans! My job would not be what it is without them.”
“Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.”

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