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"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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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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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
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"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
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"My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name."
Life
"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
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"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
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"And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't."
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"Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am."
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"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
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"I love teaching."
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"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
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