"The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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Anne Lamott, American Author

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

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"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish."

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"I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me."

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"What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning."

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"I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is."

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"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."

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"Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job."

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"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

"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!"

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

"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

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

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

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"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish."

"I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me."

"What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning."

"I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is."

"My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends."

"No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky."

"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."

"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."

"Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job."

"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."