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My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context

of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
Melissa Gilbert

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
Sterling Hayden

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
David Ortiz

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
Carey Williams

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
Matthew Simpson

Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. Fields

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

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