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"Big Brother is watching you."
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Personal Development
"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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Personal Development
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
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Personal Development
"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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Personal Development
"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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Personal Development
"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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Personal Development
"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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Personal Development
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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Personal Development
"Children are angels."
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Personal Development
"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
Hope
"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"
Thought
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
Choice
"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."
Family
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."
Family
"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."
Time
"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
Family
"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."
Bible
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."
Burden
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