"I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week."
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"We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us in this frenzy. It wants us to go here, be there, and be part of this or that."
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"If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation."
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"My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers."
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"The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life."
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"I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back."
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"When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good."
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"You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on."
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"My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults."
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"There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then.""
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"I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching."
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"I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever."
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"As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did."
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"I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better"
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"Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself."
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"If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
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"Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop."
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"I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that."
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"In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst."
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"At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent."
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