Allison Pearson Quotes

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You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

Allison Pearson
I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

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A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

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People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

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No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.

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God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

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Under the present circumstances, I would rather be a lap dancer than a woman MP—the hours are better and unruly male members are shown the door.

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The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

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Children are the proof we've been here... they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else... Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

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In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

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Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

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The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

Allison Pearson