Tony Parsons Quotes

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

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Tides, Instinct, Trust Your Instincts

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

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Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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.

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Home, Oneness, Coming Home

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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.

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Drama, Thinking, Airports

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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.

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Being In Love, Love Is, Gone

Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Who Cares, Care

Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Lucky, Sometimes, Moments

Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Beautiful, Unconditional Love, Boys

"When is the right time to have a baby?" by Tony Parsons and Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

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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.

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Bully, Coward, Behaviour

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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.

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Stars, Twilight, Cat

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

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Sometimes, Painful, Break

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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.

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Thinking, Years, Class

"My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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

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Mean, Beloved, Realizing

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The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

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Regret, Tattooed, Disfigurement

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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.

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Children, Growing Up, Fall

"When is the right time to have a baby?" by Tony Parsons and Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

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It can't always be a honeymoon

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Honeymoon

Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Years, Parent, Gone

"My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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Love means knowing when to let go.

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Love, Letting Go, Mean

Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Swimming, Thinking, Guy

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

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Teenage, Years, Trying

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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.

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Tattoo, Ugly, Flesh

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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.

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Rip, Hatred, Way

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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.

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Sacrifice, Parent, House

"Punk turns new romantic" by Tony Parsons, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 1999.

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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.

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Morning, Motivation, People

"Punk turns new romantic". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 1999.

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

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Tattoo, Looks, Individual

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