"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

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"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

Bruce Nauman, American Sculptor

Family, Father, Lie, Thoughts, Hurt

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

Family, Brother, Smoking

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

Family, Mother, Father, Heart, Country

"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Forget, Mother, Age, Love

"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

Family, First

"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

Family, First, Loyalty

"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."

George Eliot, British Author

Family, Fatherhood, Love, Affection

"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."

George Barr McCutcheon, American Novelist

Family, Father, Chicago, Office, Pretty

"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."

Mike Honda, American Politician

Family, War, Americans, Nation

"I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy."

Marcel Carne, French Director

Family, Childhood, Forget

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"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

Wife

"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."

Grief

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."

Love

"I've always believed in survival."

Survival

"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."

Men

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

Life

"I think with every writer there are two people there."

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."

"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."

"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."

"I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy."

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"Gossip is more popular than literature."

"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."

"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."

"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."

"I've always believed in survival."

"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"I think with every writer there are two people there."