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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
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When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
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The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance…
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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds…
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A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off…
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at…
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Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts
— Jane Austen
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct…
— Barbara Pym
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole…
— Padma Lakshmi
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so…
— Verne Troyer
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First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third, his brothers, sisters and aunts; fourth, the…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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