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"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
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"I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read."
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"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."
Family
"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."
Life
"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."
Fiction
"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."
Life
"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."
Writing
"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."
Character
"Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write."
Love
"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."
Love
"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."
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