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Anthony Hecht

"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."

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Akiroq Brost

"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

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Akiroq Brost

"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

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"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."

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Akiroq Brost

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."

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Akiroq Brost

"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."

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"There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father."

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"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."

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"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue."

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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

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Anthony Hecht
"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."

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Anthony Hecht
"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."

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Anthony Hecht
"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."

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Anthony Hecht
"Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs."

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Anthony Hecht
"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."

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Anthony Hecht
"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."

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