"Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family."

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Source : Ferdinand Mount (2010). “Subversive Family”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Ferdinand Mount

#Way Quotes #Existence Quotes #Relation Quotes

“I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.”
“What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.”
“Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan of Free music. Having said that, Jazz is based on individual expression and I'm compelled to respect the Free player's option to express himself as he chooses.”
“For a very great many years, I asked this question: â€˜To communicate or not to communicate?â€™ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.”
“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”
“Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.”

Source : "Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés" by Saul Gorn, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, (p. 1), repository.upenn.edu. March 1992.
“No one is going to understand your brand better than you.”

Source : "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.
“I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.”

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