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I'd never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.

I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.
– Ottessa Moshfegh

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  3. We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t a man. The bank isn’t like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men. – John Steinbeck
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  6. The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become….The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers. – Lao Tzu
  7. The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank. – Alberto Caeiro
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  10. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
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  15. It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gugu Mona
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  21. There are more places you haven’t heard of then you’re heard of!’ I loved that – Jonathan Safran Foer
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  24. We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood-”heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant. – Deborah Tannen
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