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• Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

  Alfred Stieglitz

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  Tags in Relatives, Absolute

• The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

  Jim Morrison

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  Tags in Murder, Relatives, Parents, Force, Parenting, Freedom

• In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.

  Barbara Dale

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  Tags in Time, Relatives

• Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

  Stanislav Grof

  Topics in Death, Experience

  Tags in Relatives

• I didn’t write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

  Anne Lamott

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  Tags in Relatives, Straight

• For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

  Sidney Altman

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Relatives, Canada

• I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

  Roger Zelazny

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  Tags in Enjoy, Relatives

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  Ralph Ellison

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  Tags in Relatives, Ancestors

• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  Honoré de Balzac

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  Tags in Relatives, Relationships, Inheritance, Killing

• All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Family

  Tags in Relatives

• Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Parents, Dog, Relatives

• Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

  Willie Stargell

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  Tags in Relatives, Stunted, Feelings

• What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

  Charlie Sheen

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  Tags in Normal, Relatives, Childhood

• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Tags in Relatives, Grotesque

• But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

  Tobias Wolff

  Tags in Relatives, Encountered