"I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together."
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"When Daddy goes to work, there's a mouth to feed, a point to life and a reason to do things"
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"I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times."
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"I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'."
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"Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon."
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"She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men."
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"I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks," I said."
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"Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me."
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"The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'"
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"Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too."
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"Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter."
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"By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy."
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