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#1

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

tags: kindheit-childhood

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#2

“I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

tags: boston, fantasy, magic, power, ring

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#3

“Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: concord, massachusetts, new-england, redcoats

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#4

“There was a young lady from Gloucester
Who complained that her parents both bossed her,
So she ran off to Maine.
Did her parents complain?
Not at all -- they were glad to have lost her.”
― John Ciardi, The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks

tags: gloucester, maine, massachusetts, new-england

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#5

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.”
― Edward Pearson Pressey, History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town

tags: american-revolution, colonial-america, colonial-united-states, democracy, englishmen, founding-fathers, massachusetts, montague, new-england, new-england-towns, new-england-wisdom, town-meetings

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#6

“I'd have been queen of all England, but Massachusetts haunted me and wouldn't let me go.”
― C.F. Joyce

tags: hell, massachusetts, queen

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#7

“Prohibition is the trigger of crime.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

tags: crime, prohibition

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#8

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious”
― Mark Twain

tags: prohibition, true

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#9

“Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.”
― Thomas L. Masson, Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, volume 4

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#10

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

tags: family, friendship, humor

3679 likes

#11

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: family, inspirational, life, parents

3293 likes

#12

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: family

1811 likes

#13

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity

tags: family, humor

1395 likes

#14

“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

tags: family

630 likes

#15

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#16

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

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#17

“Do you forget that I am your sister?”
“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.”
― Georgette Heyer, Frederica

tags: brother, sister

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#18

“Were you aware that my sister looks like my brother? They both look nonexistent.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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#19

“who knows you better than your own brother?”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

tags: brother, family, siblings

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#20

“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.”
― W.B. Yeats

833 likes

#21

“Poverty has long arms that reach through generations of people, leaving telltale bruise marks on its victims even after they are blessed enough to get out.”
― Julia K. Dinsmore, My Name Is Child of God...Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty: A First-person Look at Poverty

tags: intergenerational-trauma, poverty

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