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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."
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"Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages."
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"Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born."
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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
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"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."
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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
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"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."
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"Sometimes being a MOM is like a good ol' country song! You lose your sleep, you lose your hair, you lose your patience, you lose your energy, you lose your memory AND you lose your SANITY! But you DO IT all for LOVE!"
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"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."
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"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"
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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
Reading
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
Nation
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
Literature
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
Writing
"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other."
Reading
"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."
Beginning
"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog."
Home
"I don't have any style."
Style
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
Writing
"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."
Writing
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