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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 27th, 1910

Died: September 28th, 1993

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