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Quote by Don Marquis
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. – Don Marquis

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis

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I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think theres a point where one says, thats for family, thats for me. – Julie Andrews

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I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, Im the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so Im not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So Im just relaxing and enjoying it. – Betty White

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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. – Christopher Lasch

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My grandfathers family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. – Giada De Laurentiis

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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time – Leonard Bernstein

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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich

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For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’Reilly, about capitalism

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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didnt think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. – Kevin J. Anderson

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