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Daddy Always Said Quotes

Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and holdups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the best place to spend the whole thing is a Moslem country.
- Patrick Dennis

You can't go forward if you're looking backward, Mac, Daddy always said. You run into walls that way.
- Karen Marie Moning

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?"
"Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate."
"But Daddy killed people, didn't he?"
"Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex.
- Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.
- Gabrielle Zevin

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
- Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
- Gabrielle Zevin

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
- Gabrielle Zevin

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