"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."

Family, Mother, Christmas, Lonely, Vacation

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"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."

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"But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Division, Pain, Loss

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."

Voltaire, French Writer

Family, Father, Man, Oak, Shadow

"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."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

Family, Children, Giving, Growingup, Neglect

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Motherhood, Love, Prayer, Emotion

"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Gratitude, Life, Joy

"Things that remind me of Mother are these:the truth 'mid deception, a warm summer breeze,the calm within chaos, a stitch in a rip,a comforting blanket, the smile on her lip,an ocean of love in a heart big as whales,the morals in everyday stories she tells,a wink amid laughter, the wisdom in books,the peace in humility, beauty in looks,the light and the life in a ray of the sun,the hard work accomplished disguised as pure fun,concern in a handclasp, encouragement too,the hope in a clear morning sky azure blue,the power in prayers uttered soft and sincere,the faith in a promise, and joy in a tear.These things all attest to the wonder and graceof my precious mother, none else could replace."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Family, Truth, Love, Happiness, Wisdom

"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Change, Evolution, Relationship

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Family, Mother, Lose, Soul, Blessing

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Family, Brother, Honesty, Accuracy, Dishonesty

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Family, Marriage, Life, Perception, Observation

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"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."

Sex, Dancing

"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."

Time, Childhood

"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."

Intellectual, Intellectuals, Skin

"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so."

Writing, Years

"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."

Food, Accomplishments, America, Clothes

"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."

Creativity, Idea, Church, Afterlife, Contempt

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"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."

"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."

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else."

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

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"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."

"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."

"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."

"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."

"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."

"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so."

"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."

"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."