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Tony Parsons

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British journalist

Tony Parsons is a prominent British journalist, born on November 6, 1953. He has made substantial contributions to journalism through his extensive career, known for his insightful reporting and commentary on a range of social and political issues.

Man and Boy: A Novel

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“Sometimes the fog in his eyes would clear, that fog caused by the pain and the killers of pain, and when it cleared, I saw regret and fear in those eyes swimming with tears and I was convinced that this was it, this was the end, this was surely the end.”

Dying Cancer Illness

Book:Man and Boy

Source: Man and Boy

“Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.”

Thinking Knows World Years Littles I Can Ends Body Rooms Class Middle Ghost Middle Class Locked Royalty Just Live Your Room Cheques

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“It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.”

Sometimes Break Painful Messy

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“I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.”

Book:Man and Boy: A Novel

Source: Man and Boy: A Novel

“If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.”

Ifs Way Doe Hatred Insult Racist Illegal Remarks Rip Justin Intestines

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“I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.”

Years Fall Towns Falling In Love Fascinating Visiting Thailand

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“My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.”

Years Has Beens Parent Gone Standing Eternity Folks

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“It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.”

Ifs Giving Bigs Remember Mother Father Felt Natural Becoming Halfway Thumbs Mother Nature Thumbs Up Becoming A Father

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“Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.”

Theory Ugly Flesh Permanent Tattoo Chunks

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“My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.”

People Reason Care Motivation Morning My Family Take Care Rely Principal

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“The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.”

Nations Regret Tattooed Disfigurement

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“You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.”

Way Giving Shows Kids Ordinary Ladders

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“Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.”

Kind Ends Matter Care Left Love Is Gone Illusion Okay Exciting Passionate Fades Being In Love Kinds Of Love Cares About Someone

Book:Man and Boy: A Novel

Source: Man and Boy: A Novel

“And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.”

Littles Next Games House Left Heaven Stars Laughing Doors Quiet Garden Cat Balls Weather Kicks Twilight Gathering Old Houses Good Weather

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“Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.”

Home Originals Oneness Coming Home

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“The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.”

Remember Watches Sun Beach Relaxed Cocktails Groovy

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“The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.”

Knows Want Trying Care Girl Morning Members Weight Sticks Every Morning I Care

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“There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.”

Might Running White Dinner Locals Beach Reasonable Hats Fabulous Handful Seafood Barbecue Lobster Yang Shack Squids

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“When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.”

Ends Dying Journalist Gym Music Business

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“When you have a kid, money matters.”

Matter Kids Money Matters

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“Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.”

School Grammar Public School Grammar School

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“I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.”

Wells Found Stars Dad My Dad North Star

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“I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.”

Sweet Toughness

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“I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.”

Wanted Hate Reading I Hate Shorts Casinos Bahamas

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“A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.”

Looks Individual Tattoo

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“I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.”

Thinking Said I Can Waste Bigger Police Offensive Chasing

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“I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.”

People Thinking Feels Humans Seems Secret Cities Huge Drama Convinced Mythology Airports Folklore Majestic

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“I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.”

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“My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.”

Littles House Parent Generations Sacrifice Prepared Gave Up Prairie Little House On The Prairie

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“I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.”

Thinking Way Looks Persons Kids Parent Generations Lifetime Wow

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“I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.”

Hours Four Week Healthy Boxes Diets

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“The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.”

Life Inspirational Wisdom Dream Purpose Wise Positive Awakening Clever

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“The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.”

Knows Fighting Know How British Ashamed

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“I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.”

World Behinds Excuse Connected Digital Coward Hiding Behaviour Bully Inappropriate Keyboards

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“When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.”

Firsts Littles Feelings Beautiful Turns Felt Born Boys Grew Unconditional Love Unconditional Little Boys

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“People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.”

People Guy Nice Nice Guy

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“I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.”

Thinking World Feels Looks Persons Guy Like You Skins Magazines Dumb Swimming Pants Handsome Ink Stains Modelling Beckham

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“My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.”

Trying Years Looks Hills Teenage Dave Teenage Years

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“The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.”

Children Fall Grows Growing Up Argument Parenthood Falling Apart Convincing

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“to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go”

Mean Realizing Beloved Love Means

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“Love means knowing when to let go.”

Love Mean Love Is Knowing Letting Go Inspirational Love Love Means Meaning Of Love

Book:Man and Boy: A Novel

Source: Man and Boy: A Novel

“Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.”

Instinct Tides Trust Your Instincts

Author:Tony Parsons

“It can't always be a honeymoon”

Book:Man and Boy: A Novel

Source: Man and Boy: A Novel

“Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.”

Ifs Sometimes Moments Lucky Happenings

Book:Man and Boy: A Novel

Source: Man and Boy: A Novel

About the Author

Born: November 6, 1953
Known for: British journalist
Quotes: 44

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