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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. – Anne Tyler

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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think were the greatest hunters on earth! – Anne Tyler

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amazing
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. – Anne Tyler

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Morning
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest. – Anne Tyler

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Marriage
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. Its a Catch-22 kind of thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Family

In five years time Id like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. Id like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. Id like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me. – Adele

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Family

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu

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Family

My family can always tell when Im well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. – Anne Tyler

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Family

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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. – Paul Getty

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We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models. – Arthur Ashe

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Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. – Shana Alexander

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Gossip

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer – by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They dont seem to want to take too many risks with living people. – Kenneth Anger

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legal