"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."

Family, Father, Son, Earth, Fathers

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"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."

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Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"People can cry much easier than they can change."

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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

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"I want to be an honest man and a good writer."

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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

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"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."

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