"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."

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Source : Jane Smiley (1991). “Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas”

Jane Smiley

#Son Quotes #Grandchildren Quotes #Like You Quotes

“If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.”
“It is insanity to run from God and search for love.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.50, Thomas Nelson Inc
“You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harderâ€¦, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.”
“I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.”
“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.”

Source : "Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 407, 1990.
“When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.”
“I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.”
“They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?”

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