Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: death alcoholism father
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
Cormac McCarthyWithout the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
Leo TolstoyTags: children religion child parenting father
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
Sigmund FreudTwo kisses in one kiss was all it took, a comfort, a warmth, perhaps temporary, perhaps false, but reassuring nonetheless, and mine, and theirs, ours, all three of us giggling, insane giggles and laughter with still more kisses on the way, and I remember a brief instant then, out of the blue, when I suddenly glimpsed my own father, a rare but oddly peaceful recollection, as if he actually approved of my play in the way he himself had always laughed and played, great updrafts of light, burning off distant plateaus of bistre
Mark Z. DanielewskiTags: kissing sex joy memory regret euphoria father mood single-sentence threesome
And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?"
He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor.
Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said.
I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.
It's too heavy," I said.
Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.
Tags: knowledge childhood father
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}
Tags: reason united-states freedom-of-thought myth irreligion father virgin fable jupiter minerva supreme-being virgin-birth
The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.
Jeanne BirdsallTags: father brawl magnitude passerby penderwicks referee
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
Chuck PalahniukTags: child mother father palahniuk snuff parent
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.
Jodi PicoultTags: father hug parent hold picoult
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