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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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But what I hope for from a book – either one that I write or one that I read – is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I dont want to think of the writer. – Anne Tyler

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Hope
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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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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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There arent a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but heres one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and heres betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if youre a parent, so do you. – Jeffrey Kluger

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I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family. – Sanford I. Weill

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I dont know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. – Penelope Cruz

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Family

It never occurred to me that I wouldnt go to college and have a career – as well as a family – of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible. – Dee Dee Myers

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My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year. – Kim Kardashian

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. – Abraham Lincoln

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Married with Children was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny. – Katey Sagal

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