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When our
relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good
points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when
they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by
dwelling on their vices.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
A family's
photograph album is generally about the extended family and,
often, is all that remains of it.
-- Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist
Absence is one
of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose
it rightly is an art like any other.
-- Freya Stark
1893-1993, British Travel
Writer
Happy or
unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to
imagine how differently we would be described --and will be,
after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe
they know us.
-- Gloria Steinem
1934-, American Feminist
Writer, Editor
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