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"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."
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"Wherever mom is, there is my heart and my home."
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Personal Development
"Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by."
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Personal Development
"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"Family is a fortress."
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"Children are God's gift."
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"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."
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"Children of the light, walk in the light."
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"Dads, no matter your relationship with your kid's mom, honor her this weekend. Mother's Day isn't about you or drama. It's about her and her impact on your ids. Be grateful. Celebrate her. and if you can't get out of your own way, do it for your kids."
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"Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners."
People
"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
Advice
"I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."
Truth
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
Time
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
Time
"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."
People
"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
World
"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."
Difference
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
Reading
"I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story."
Language
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