“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
“A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.”
― Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts
― Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts
“Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.”
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“the least black band on Earth is Belle & Sebastian,”
― Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
― Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
“The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.”
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