"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."

Family, Mother

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"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."

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"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

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"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."

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"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."

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"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."

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