Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
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