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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.


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Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.


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