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To be fair, there are an awful lot of famous people on the planet nowadays, so many that there hardly seems to be anyone who isn’t famous anymore.
The most dangerous thing you can give evil is free time,
When you get old, gravity pulls the corners of your mouth down, the road to a smile grows longer.
Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.
When her son thought she was embarrassing because she talked too much and laughed too loudly, she would throw Émile Zola’s words at him: “I would rather die of passion than of boredom!”
It is an act of violence when an adult yells at a child, all adults know that deep down, because all adults were once little. Yet we still do it. Time after time, we fail at being human beings.
“It’s incredibly difficult being a mom, Louisa. It’s difficult being a human being. I think my mom was very like me at first, because she was a romantic when she was young. But there’s no harder person on the planet than a romantic with a broken heart.”
Children aren’t responsible for their parents’ happiness, but they still try.
