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“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.”

Years Long Real Courses Father Felt Cry One Day Late Sick Twenties Finals Guilty Broke Funeral Late Twenties

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.”

Years Humans Self Spiritual Father Left My Own Twenties Seven Russia Witness Seven Years Monument Grim Deterioration

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.”

Littles Enough Wanted Fall Father Fine Couple Twenties Miles California Farms Miles Away Thoroughbreds

Author:Sam Shepard

“His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.”

Mother Father Married Determination Dignity Twenties Eight Loyalty Thirty Fierce Unyielding Steadiness

Author:Jill Lepore

“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.”

“The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Stills Age America Father Members Six Twenties Presses Administration Journalist Credibility

Book:Crazy Salad Plus Nine

Source: Crazy Salad Plus Nine

“...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.”

Thinking Years I Can Father Responsibility My Family Twenties Seven Seven Years Thirteen Crossroads Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Sunshine and shadow

Source: Sunshine and shadow

“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.”

Wells Earth Faces Father Left Adventure Taste Died Twenties Dollars Pursuit Almighty Twenty One Resigned Wanderers Father Died My Father Died

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.”

Firsts Looks Father House Silence Position Ready Mets Pure Twenties Sensitive Dependent Contempt Offense Distrust Unbearable Condemnation Filthy Chaste Debauchery

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.”

Way Two Home Kids Found Father Week Minutes Mines Twenties Average Hips Pockets Unbelievable Twenty Two

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King