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Erma Louise Bombeck, née le 21 février 1927 à Bellbrook et morte le 22 avril 1996 à San Francisco , est une humoriste, écrivaine et journaliste américaine. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. février 1927 – 22. avril 1996  •  Autres noms ארמה בומבק, ارما بومبک
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Erma Bombeck: Citations en anglais

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”

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“The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.”

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“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

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“I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.”

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A Marriage Made In Heaven; or, Too Tired For an Affair (1993)

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

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As quoted in 50 Ways to Stand Up for America : Put the Spirit of July 4th Into Everyday Life (2002) by W. B. Freeman

“When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.”

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“All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”

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“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”

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“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.”

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“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”

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“If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.”

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As quoted in TIME (1984), also in Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much (1993) by Jonathon Lazear and Wendy Lazear, p. 22

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