George Hodgman Quotes

#1. You must always, always tell the truth. If you are mad, say so. If someone asks you anything, try to find the exact words to describe what you have to say. If you try to tell the exact truth, always, you will ground yourself, become yourself. The truth connects you. It hooks you back up.

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#2. old people who are failing get the angriest with those they are most attached to, the people who make them realize they are no longer themselves.

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#3. I am an unlikely guardian. A month ago I thought the Medicare doughnut hole was a breakfast special for seniors. I am a care inflictor.

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#4. ...I think of all the people quietly doing so many things that are hard.

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#5. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,

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#6. If Betty turned against you, she would take you on, but if she loved someone, they would never stand alone.

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#7. When I let my mind wander back that far, what I see is how hard we tried to be our best for one another. In

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#8. He loved me, as so many have loved the children who turned out to be so different, "in spite of." I didn't want "in spite of.

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#9. It was October in Pennsylvania and on the first morning the ground was frosted. As I walked to breakfast, some guy yelled out, 'Thirteen inches in the Poconos.'
'Is that I porn film?' I asked.

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#10. Thanks to Steven, I rode on a bus with the Gay Men's chorus, which he and the doctor had joined. All the way they sang. When I looked at Steven and made a face, he looked offended, but I didn't care. It was way too early in the morning for anything from Sweeney Todd.

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#12. People forced to live by conventions are always the first to enforce them.

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#13. When dealing with older women, a trip to a hairdresser and two Bloody Marys goes further than any prescription drug. . . .

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#14. Kindness may be the most difficult of virtues, but when I have encountered it, it has meant everything to me.

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#15. I can never be a person who has not made mistakes. But I can be someone honest who has lived through them: one of those who look you square in the eye and say, 'This is how it has been, and it is okay.

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#16. The thing about being a watcher is this: You are never really a part of things, especially if the person you must watch is yourself, always, just to make sure no one ever really sees you. .

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#17. Things are different now. A book I read said three things changed rural America: the breakup of the family farm;

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#18. She is of a generation who existed before feelings were spoken of.

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#19. And now here I am, suddenly, after all these years, home. I am not exactly the black sheep of my family, but it is not like I am grazing in pastels. Getting

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#20. People mean well; they just aren't here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me suspect they must consider me an idiot who doesn't comprehend the situation.

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#21. They stand and say it is their right to say things that injure children who have learned to hate themselves.

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