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“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”
― Not Dying
― Not Dying
“Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.”
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“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
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“I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.”
― Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever
― Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever
“The Saroyan Stairs were special. Before leaving for Spain, he hadn’t anticipated sharing his late-night pilgrimages there with anyone. Not even Marcus, much as Alex loved his best friend. Lauren’s presence wasn’t an intrusion, though. It was a completion.”
― All the Feels
― All the Feels
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