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If loneliness is the disease, then the story is the cure.
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Someone... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.
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Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.
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Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
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Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
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It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?
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What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.
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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.
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In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made—like light we see emitted from stars.
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Our ex-wifes always harbor secrets about us that make them irresistible. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.
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Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes.
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Just exactly what that good life was — the one I expected — I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not come to pass, only that much has come in between.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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February 16, 1944
(age 80)
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