Quotes with son—and

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  • Barbara Cooney She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • George Eliot She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anne Bronte She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Bruce Springsteen She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
    Source: Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Oscar Wilde She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Boy George She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Donald Trump Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
    Source: Tony Schwartz: Trump: The Art of the Deal (2009) 147
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Philip Roth Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • E. B. White Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Anthony Doerr Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aaron Klug Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Barry Sanders Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Pat Riley Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bishop Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Bo Bennett Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Fawn M. Brodie Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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