[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we … - Helen Van Slyke

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A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.

Helen Van Slyke

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.

Gods, Parent, Perfect, Pleased, Trying

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Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

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Isn't it boring. . . how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.

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Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

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If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

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People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

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