Alain de Botton
alaindebotton Alain de Botton
"Family life descends into game of 'how badly can everyone behave and still be tolerated?' Definition of family: infinitely badly.

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[Hank Chapin]

Robert Frost said something like, home is where when you go there, you don't have to ask if you can come in.

A friend of mine said that in family life whoever acts up the worst wins.

[Hattie]

Or, as George Bernard Shaw put it, "A family is a tyranny ruled over by its weakest member."

[Poppa Zao]

On de Botton: I like this speculation on a world without airplanes that he wrote in 2010. When oil grows scarce, aircraft will disappear from the skies.