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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

I never have anything to talk about.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.