“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
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“I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.”
― Notebook of Elbert Hubbard
― Notebook of Elbert Hubbard
“It may be said that no two children have exactly the same parents, in that the parenting they each receive may vary in highly significant ways. Whatever the hopes, wishes or intentions of the parent, the child does not experience the parent directly: the child experiences the parenting. I have known two siblings to disagree vehemently about their father’s personality during their childhood. Neither has to be wrong if we understand that they did not receive the same fathering, which is what formed their experience of the father. I have even seen subtly but significantly different mothering given to a pair of identical twins.”
― Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
― Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
― Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
― Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
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