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“For my own part, speaking personally, I have found the happiness of parenthood greater than any other that I have experienced.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“First . . . your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.” Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children.” John Irving, The Cider House Rules
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.” Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“That the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question, and he, too, gave to the great, hairy beast all the affection that would have belonged to his fair young mother had she lived.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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