T. C. Boyle Quotes

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

T. C. Boyle

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• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

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• I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

  

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• There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents