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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
"I squinted at her. "You're an adult. "You're an adult too. "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed."
"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
Explore more quotes by Denis Diderot
"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
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