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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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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine – what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age. – Anne Tyler

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Age
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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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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. – Douglas Adams

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My works never been accepted by my family, but its something Ill always carry on with. – Johnny Vegas

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Family

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. – Hillary Clinton

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Family

Young actors often dont think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers. – Natalie Portman

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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. – Jacob August Riis

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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I dont want to go to PTA meetings. – Stevie Nicks

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parenting

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. – Herbert Croly

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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything. – Anthony Trollope

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