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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. – Quentin Crisp

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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. – Quentin Crisp

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relationship
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Quentin Crisp
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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

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Teenagers
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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. – Angelo Patri

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Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children. – Cindy Garner

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby

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Father! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name. – William Wordsworth

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Since the dawn of time, there has been one truth about men: if they can toss it, pass it, dribble it, or throw it — they will. – The Middle, “The Sinkhole” (season6, episode6, original airdate 2014 November 12

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