"My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die."

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Source : Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.75, Macmillan

Anna Banks

#Dad Quotes #Swallowing Quotes #Poison Quotes

“He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.”
“If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.”

Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.
“Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.”
“I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don't dream about being a role player. They dream about being the man. I have that position in Toronto and to give that up and go somewhere else to be an addition would kinda defeat the purpose of my dreams.”
“Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.”
“Money doesn't make u happy .. But happy makes you money..”
“Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.”
“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.”

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