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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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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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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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Romantic
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Ayelet Waldman
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I feed my kids organic food and milk, but Ive also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to The Simpsons. – Ayelet Waldman

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Food
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Family
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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. – Yiddish Proverb

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Family

Im not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and Id like that too, someday. – Kristen Stewart

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Family

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. – Willa Cather

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Family

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what its all about. – Julie Andrews

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Family

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The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. – Robert Flatt

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Easter

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. – Lord Jeffrey

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Reputation

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful 70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun. – Eric Alterman

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cool

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? – Hugo Ball

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Symbols