"The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone."

-- Judith Viorst

#Mother Quotes #Self Quotes #Long Quotes

“See! I just kicked Stan!!!”
“My daughter and I are so close. She just turned six. I can describe anything she's doing, the least little thing, and I get all excited about it. It's like medicine.”
“My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.”

Source : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
“I've always been interested in science fiction”
“Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.”
“I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.”

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