"There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on."

-- Daphne Merkin

#Family Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Stubborn Quotes

“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House
“Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!”
“Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.”
“You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.”
“I find the medicine worse than the malady.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1711). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The knight of the burning pestle. Loves pilgrimage. The double marriage. The maid in the mill. The knight of Malta. Love's cure. Women pleas'd”
“You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.”
“I just hope you have as much fun letting it spin as I did putting it together.”
“Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (1989). “Dance on the earth: a memoir”, McClelland and Stewart

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