"No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently."

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Source : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.43, Schwartz & Wade

“Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.”
“... there's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.”
“In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.”
“I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.”
“There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.”
“Christians have created a holiday that has become a beast that cannot be fed. Christmas gets longer and longer and longer, and you don't care, do you? You just take more and more of the calendar for yourself. It's unbelievable. How long does it take you people to shop? It's beyond belief. It's insane. When I was a kid, Halloween was Halloween, and Santa wasn't poking his ***** into it.”
“Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.”
“In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path.”

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