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• For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tragic in Incontinence, Indiana, was redundant, and his mother kept shouting at him and making him forget his rhymes. "Tommy, if you keep grinding your teeth like that, they'll wear away and you'll have to have dentures like Aunt Ester." Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's---then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively.

  Christopher Moore

  Mother, Hero, Dark

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• When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Laughing, Understanding, Should

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• We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Kids

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• ...I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although there are lots of people at Liberty who condemn violence against gays-including Dr. Falwell himself-the number of students who want to give them the Goliath treatment isn't zero. In fact, the number who live in my room isn't zero.

  Kevin Roose

  Hurt, People, Giving

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• [My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."

  Geena Davis

  Wine, Glasses, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for , if not to be knit up finally?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fall, Law, Hands

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Guessing, Figures

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Littles, Hospitality

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

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• Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, People, Mind

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• We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Looks, Beast, Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?" "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Crazy, Years

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• Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.

  Avi

  Love You, Kissing, Giving

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• I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mom, Crazy, I Can

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• Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted to develop an Aunt Bea type role for Matlock, but he was against it. I did appear on other popular TV shows, like Family Affair, My Three Sons, Barnaby Jones and Little House on the Prairie.

  Betty Lynn

  Son, Years, Tv Shows

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• my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds) of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)

  e. e. cummings

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. “I’m just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?” “Sure.” Thirty seconds later, as I was flying through the air, I decided that this wasn’t the best idea.

  Ilona Andrews

  Yoga, Air, Ideas

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or breaking up with her aroma-therapist boyfriend, who reads the Tarot cards of kindergarteners and says things like, "Bring Aunty Liz another wine cooler, baby, and I'll let you wear my mood ring.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Crazy, Wine

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• I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

  Henry James

  Want, Said, Knows

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

  Jill Scott

  Jobs, House, Funeral

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• It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Uncles, Book

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• Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.

  Dylan Moran

  Fun, Hands, Talking

  "Dylan Moran: 'Panel shows bore me'" by Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. February 25, 2011.

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• A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

  Moby

  Mother, Trying, Sound

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• All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Grandfather, Portraits

  "Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2008.

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• I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cousin, Uncles, Cities

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• I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

  Andy Cohen

  Sexy, Uncles, Thinking

  "Bravo's Andy Cohen shares his story in the Castro". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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