The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls–even if you'd once been best friends–was now just that, outsiders. Meg Wolitzer
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  1. Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
  2. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
  3. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
  4. I never met a man that I didn't like.
  5. All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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