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“He had the slick, proprietary attitude that small men from big cities sometimes bring toward big men from small cities”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

“The whole of his life was only one long protest against his lack of importance: that, I鈥檓 sure, was what drove him to kill so many magnificent animals 鈥� some of the finest and most powerful in creation. One day, I won the confidence of a writer who comes regularly to Africa to kill his ration of elephants, lions and rhino. I had asked him where he got this need and he had had enough to drink to make him sincere: 鈥楢ll my life I鈥檝e been half-dead with fear. Fear of living, fear of dying, fear of illness, fear of becoming impotent, fear of the inevitable physical decline. When it becomes intolerable, I come to Africa, and all my dread, all my fear, is concentrated on the charging rhino, on the lion rising slowly in front of me out of the grass, on the elephant that swerves in my direction. Then at last my dread becomes something tangible, something I can kill. I shoot, and for a while I鈥檓 delivered, I have complete peace, the animal has taken away with him in his sudden death all my accumulated terrors 鈥� for a few hours I鈥檓 rid of them. At the end of six weeks it amounts to a real cure.鈥� I鈥檓 sure there was something of that in Orsini 鈥� but above all, there was a violent protest against the smallness and impotence of being a man, the smallness and impotence of being Orsini. He had to kill a lot of elephants and lions to compensate for that.”
― Romain Gary

“Family dysfunction rolls down from generation to generation like a fire in the woods, taking down everything in its path until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares the children that follow.”
― Terry Real, Relational Parenting, Raising Healthy Boys and Girls