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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."
"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."
"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."
"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."
"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
"My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself."
"Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you."
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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."
"Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common."
"I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along."
"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."
"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."
"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."
"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."
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