Quote by Ayelet Waldman
Im sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but Iv

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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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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Family
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One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. – Ayelet Waldman

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Fear
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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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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I dont think Im capable of that. – Chris Cooper

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Humor

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten

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Humor

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product. – Allen Klein

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Humor

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. – Samuel Richardson

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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. – Bryant H. McGill

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Skin does not equal sin. – Author Unknown

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