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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They wer

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. – John Cheever

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. – Katharine Butler Hathaway

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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after Im gone. – Eddie Van Halen

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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didnt stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes. – Nadia Giosia

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There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about. – Shirley Knight

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After all, in todays music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. – Maynard James Keenan

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins

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In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we dont have a plan for reconstruction at home. – Jesse Jackson

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