A Quote by George Packer

I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

George Packer

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George Packer
American - Novelist
Born: August 13, 1960

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

John Keats

I have twins and luckily when I first looked at them I felt, I am really into you. I am going to find it easy to love you. But there are mothers out there who do not make that connection. It is a taboo subject but it is not exotic. It is a nightmare.

Lynne Ramsay

I am a very easy-going father at home - I am more of a friend than a parent.

Randhir Kapoor

I'm so sorry, Henri," I whisper in his ear. I close my eyes. "I love you. I wouldn't have missed a second of it, either. Not for anything," I whisper. "I'm going to take you back yet. Somehow I am going to get you back to Lorien. We always joked about it but you were my father, the best father I could have ever asked for. I'll never forget you, not for a minute for as long as I live. I love you, Henri. I always did.

Pittacus Lore

I am always able to find that solitude. I am always able to find that peace. Which is tight. That is what has helped me keep going.

J.I.D

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

David Foster Wallace

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

Eric Whitacre

I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.

Will Smith

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

Henry Samueli

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Tennessee Williams

I've never been a selfish player. I've never been able to just say I am going as well. I've always thought about the team first.

Jermaine Jenas

The more I have to do, the better off I am. I'm not really one to sit around and relax and take it easy. I always like having something to do. Even though I'm not competing, I'm going to be making a lot of appearances, doing guest posings and seminars.

Ronnie Coleman

I have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the laugh. What it did make me conscious of was having empathy for those without any power in this country. That has always stuck with me.

Lewis Black

You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are we not allowed to enter in certain areas? We used to ask my father why the Christians lived in another neighborhood and didn’t come to our neighborhood. I think my father was trying to avoid having us think about these issues.

Rula Jebreal

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

Sigmund Freud

My father was very proud of everything I did and he watched my career and my growing fame with great interest, but despite my mother dying so early on in my life, my relationship with my father - who was always a very remote figure - was never easy.

Arlene Phillips

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