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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. – Ralph Ellison

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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. – Ralph Ellison

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communication
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Ralph Ellison
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. – Ralph Ellison

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Fairy Tales
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I have a beautiful son, I dont regret it, Im very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and thats our priority. – Nia Long

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A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when youre single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, its a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have. – Cathy Guisewite

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Its interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if youre going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, itll cost you $200,000. Its the same… the relationship is exactly the same. – Zack Snyder

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I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply dont know what the alternative would have been. – Juliet Stevenson

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