"The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own."

-- Katharine Whitehorn

#Children Quotes #Party Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
“Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'”
“The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.”
“The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.”

Source : Josephine Preston Peabody, “The House And The Road”
“Shame can be self-indulgence too.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
“You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.”
“Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.”
“One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.”

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