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Quote by Ayelet Waldman
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. – Ayelet Waldman

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So many women today have become so focused on their children, theyve developed these romantic entanglements with their childrens lives, and the husbands are secondary. Theyre left out. And the romantic focus is on the children. – Ayelet Waldman

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Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful. – Ayelet Waldman

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Family
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Ayelet Waldman
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Im sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but Ive never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. – Ayelet Waldman

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Humor
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Everybody has basically the same family, its just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. – Doug Coupland

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Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin to borrow money. Ive always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. – Richard Pryor

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Im considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation. – Rupert Murdoch

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Friends are God’s apology for relations. – Hugh Kingsmill

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