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"Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him."
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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

"I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid."
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"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

"Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him."
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