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"My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church."
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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."

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"My father never was a famous guy, he was just a person which made a lot of mistakes. But the suicide wasn't the best path, the best choice it was a way which could be skipped by using something else, by doing something else.But the question is why did he do it?To make mad and crazy the daughter of his ladylove??"

"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"

"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."

"I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away."

"It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say."

"Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film."

"I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture."

"My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world."

"I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me."

"I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man."
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