Joe Meno Quotes

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The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.

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It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

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The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

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When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

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The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

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Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

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Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.

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We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

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What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

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It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

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Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

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The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

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Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

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Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when
really bad things were just about to happen.

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After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

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Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

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