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title: "2 Father Faced Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his days with the bottle, as if he determined to drink himself to death, as if his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/watching-a-parent-die-is-a-terrible-task-my-father-faced-with/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

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> [In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rufus-wainwright/in-the-music-business-to-survive-for-so-long-you-have-to-be-able-to/)

[Rufus Wainwright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rufus-wainwright/)

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