Parenting Quote by Jonathan Tropper

“Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they’re never really gone.” quote by Jonathan Tropper — Download Open image

““Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they’re never really gone.””

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The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

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“Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation,”

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“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

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“In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.”

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“Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the world are women. Odds are that at least a few of them would be willing to go out with me.' 'Damn right,' Phillip chimes in. 'And it's not like he's been celibate since he moved out.…

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I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App…

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“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social…

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“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.”

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I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

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“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15”

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“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact…

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“attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off the rack at Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. They run on treadmills, these women, work out with personal trainers and play tennis at the club, but still their hips widen, their legs thicken, their breasts sag. Genetics…

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