David Guterson Quotes

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One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my lot with love, and don't know any other way to go on breathing.

David Guterson
"Everything up here is crumbling," he said. "Erosion city or something." Basalt lava," Christine said. "Old volcanoes." "Very old volcanoes." "Like fifty million years." "Even older."

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I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

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You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better.

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The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto's long-cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow. The world was one world, and the notion that a man might kill another over some small patch of it did not make sense.

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He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

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The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

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None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

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The rain fell with such fervor that the world disappeared.

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Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

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There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can.... Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

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The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

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To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

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We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.

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How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love's illusion. And yet — on the other hand — what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt?

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Accident rules every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

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That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty.

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