People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
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Jodi Picoult
Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take. . You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person."" That's true. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>That's the truest thing you ever said."" All right. I...
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, it’s hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more carefully than that one should never be dependent....
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John Gardner
In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself–your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.
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K.P. Yohannan
You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.
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Alexandra Bracken
More Quotes By Goethe
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.
So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.
