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  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    Dad called it "enlightenment" but to me, it just felt lonely.
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  2. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
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  3. Bijou Hunter _ Whiskey Blues

    BONN: I thought fatherhood was hard, and some people weren't suited for it. But it's not. Being a father, a good one, I mean, is about making a choice.
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  4. Michael Chabon _ Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

    What I came to dislike about Little League that spring was not the regulation per se, or the fathers--whose consciousness had generally been raised at least a little bit--or the tedium, or the low quality of play, or the pain of watching my son strike out a lot. It was the way I got reminded, every game, that this was the world my children lived in: the world in which the wild watershed of childhood had been brought fully under control of the adult Corps of Engineers.
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  5. Michael Chabon _ Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

    You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even on occasion manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough. Abe had not been dressing up, styling himself, for all these years because he was trying to prove how different he was from everyone else. He did it in the hope of attracting the attention of somebody else-somewhere, someday-who was the same. He was not flying his freak flag; he was sending up a flare, hoping for rescue, for company in the solitude of his passion."You were with your people. You found them," I said.He nodded. "That's good," I said. "You're early."
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  6. Michael Chabon _ Telegraph Avenue

    You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.
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  7. Michael Chabon _ Summerland

    It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.
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  8. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ The Return of the Prodigal

    The return to the "Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name" allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my heavenly Father be the God whose unlimited, unconditional love melts away all resentments and anger and makes me free to love beyond the need to please or find approval.
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  9. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.
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  10. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry.
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  11. John Steinbeck _ Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir

    Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.
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  12. Richard Ford _ Canada

    He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
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