"Between children and parents, there is a difficulty……" — Susan Minot
"Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people."
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29 Quotes by Susan Minot
Susan Minot has 29 quotes on this site.
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock…
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The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person,…
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather…
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[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates.…
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Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved…
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I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
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There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
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After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even…
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...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
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...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while…
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Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which…
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Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain…
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More Children Quotes
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one of 18,494 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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