"Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?"

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Tom Hodgkinson

#Summer Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Home Quotes

“I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.
“For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.”
“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.110, Penguin
“What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.”
“Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.”
“How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.”
“Your real selfÂ - the I am IÂ - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.”
“I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.”

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