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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. ↗

— Amy Tan

#childhood #difficult #expect #had #having

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy. ↗

— Amy Tan

#been #case #different #first #first time

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#another #i #kill #person #right

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#blessed #continue #fall #hand #others

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#been #cannot #connected #dust #dvd

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#dreams #get #jobs #other #then

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#child #children #know #lie #like