"Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity."

-- Dani Shapiro

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“Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.”
“She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.”

Source : Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.240, Melville House
“I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.”
“For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.”
“I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.”
“A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.”
“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.154, Macmillan
“It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?”

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