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“We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.”

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Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

“Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.”

“Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.”

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Author:Natalie Kusz

“True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.”

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.”

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Author:Pam Brown

“I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.”

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Author:Quentin Crisp

“If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.”

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Book:The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir

Source: The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir

“It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.”

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Book:Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classroom

Source: Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classroom

“There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.”

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Author:Chris Martin