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“In the main, my mother’s function was to prepare the meals, which she did like an amoeba might, with neither creativity nor taste, but lots of mayonnaise.”

Book:La Vraie Vie

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La Vraie Vie

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“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.”

Death Time Work Technology Revolution Sociology Permanence Achievements Anachronisms

Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“Sons love mothers, mothers love their sons? It’s sentimental nonsense uttered only by the fools who purchase greeting cards and, in another and much darker sense, by Freudians.”

Humor Family Humour Mothers Sons Mothers And Sons

Book:Motherdarling

Source: Motherdarling

“When the fathers have traditionally established the direction and the focus of the family, it is the mothers that nurture the heart of the family.”

Mothers Fathers Heart Of The Family

Author:Wanda Alger

“Her voice was soft and soothing, like some distant lullaby you couldn't place.”

Sweet Mothers Voices Soft Motherly Lullabies

Book:The Legend of Acacia Vitak

Source: The Legend of Acacia Vitak

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